Location Kanazawa University Museum

Medical Teaching Diagram, Sei Medical School Copyright, Human Body Part Anatomical Diagram: Diagram 15

One of the medical teaching diagrams used for medical education at the predecessor school of Kanazawa University School of Medicine. Diagram 15 depicts in detail the muscles, nerves and blood vessels of the head. Sei Medical School was the predecessor of the current Jikei University School of Medicine, and was founded in 1881 as the Sei Medical Association Training School, and from 1890 to 1891 it was known as Sei Medical School. In other words, this item is a lithograph anatomical diagram created in Japan in the early 1890s, and is valuable in terms of not only the history of medical education but also the history of printing technology. This diagram was printed by Taikindo Sekiin, a printing company established in 1885 in Motosukiya-cho, Kyobashi, Tokyo (now Ginza 5-chome). The company was named Tokyo Shueisha Sekiin later, prior to becoming the current Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

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