The premise of fidelity science, visuality, and representing the real in nineteenth-century Japan

The eye of the Shōhyaku-sha : between seeing and knowing -- Ways of conceptualizing the real : scripts, names, and Materia medica -- Modes of observation and the real : exhibition practices of the Shōhyaku-sha -- Picturing the real : questions of fidelity and processes of pictorial representation -- Shashin in the capital : the last stage of metamorphosis.