A selection of seashells.  Woodblock illustrations of shell and coral specimens from Yochiro Hirase’s work “Kai Senshu” (The Illustrations of a Thousand Shells). Published in Kyoto, Japan by Yamada Naozōburō in 1914-1915. In Japanese.

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Page 32. Woodblock illustration taken from Yochiro Hirase’s work Kai Senshu (The Illustrations of a Thousand Shells). Published in Kyoto Japan by Yamada Naozōburō in 1914-1915.. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81292#page/32/mode/1up
Page 38. Woodblock illustration taken from Yochiro Hirase’s work Kai Senshu (The Illustrations of a Thousand Shells). Published in Kyoto Japan by Yamada Naozōburō in 1914-1915.. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81292#page/38/mode/1up
Page 44. Woodblock illustration taken from Yochiro Hirase’s work Kai Senshu (The Illustrations of a Thousand Shells). Published in Kyoto Japan by Yamada Naozōburō in 1914-1915.. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81292#page/44/mode/1up
Page 48. Woodblock illustration taken from Yochiro Hirase’s work Kai Senshu (The Illustrations of a Thousand Shells). Published in Kyoto Japan by Yamada Naozōburō in 1914-1915.. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81292#page/48/mode/1up

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