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Japanese Anatomical Woodblock Prints

Tiny workers run the body like a village, one gate labeled 'urine'

Japanese Anatomical Woodblock Prints

Inshoku Yojo Kagami (“a model for a healthy diet,” 1855) turns a man’s dinner into an org chart: little figures scurry around a pool wrapped in intestines, stoke a fire under the heart, and consult a scholar with reference books on hand. Two lonely posts, guarding the “urine gate” and the “feces gate,” are surely the worst jobs in the body’s economy. Widely credited online to Kunisada; UCSF’s own catalog names the obscurer Utagawa Yoshitsuna.

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