Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)(publicdomainreview.org)

42 points by prismatic 144 days ago | 4 comments

sanufar 141 days ago |

Big fan of the bottom right snowflake on this page: https://pdr-assets.b-cdn.net/collections/japanese-snowflake-...

Transferring each snowflake by hand with tweezers is insane, what a feat

kazinator 141 days ago |

It appears that the author of this work invented the word 雪華 (sekka); it originates in that book. Other than that, a snow crystal is just called ゆきの結晶 (yukinokesshō).

gsf_emergency_6 141 days ago | |

Related(?) word meaning sublimation

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%9D%E8%8F%AF

1828 (4 years before this book launched)

https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/517539

(Sword guard)

kazinator 141 days ago | | |

The word doesn't appear on the sword guard itself, though, so the object doesn't attest it.