Ontleedkundig Tafelen

The Kaitai Shinsho is a Japanese translation of the Ontleedkundig Taflen written in Dutch by the German, Adam Kulmus. This is the first book on anatomy, and the diagrams of the dissected human body is supplemented with explanations. Ryotaku Maeno obtained this book from Kogyu Yoshino, an interpreter who studied Dutch in Nagasaki. Genbaku Sugita (Kohama domain) who studied Dutch medicine was impressed by the accuracy of this book where he compared the text with the actual dissection procedure with Tyotaku Maeno and decided to translated it into Japanese.