Abstract
I investigated the Toki Medicine Chest, named after its owner Takanobu Toki (Okayama Prefecture).
The Toki Medicine Chest consisted of two boxes, one large and one small. This combination of large and small boxes is similar to that of the Katagiri Medicine Chest reported previously. However, in the case of the Toki Medicine Chest, it is believed that the chest was owned by the same person after confirming an analysis of the contents, which were crude drugs.
In terms of medicine chest design, there wasn't any big difference between the Toki Medicine Chest and Katagiri Medicine Chest. Judging from the contents of the drugs found in it, the Toki Medicine Chest was likely used at the beginning of the Meiji era, not Edo. There were different types of medicines in the chest; not only local powdered drugs, but also imported drugs. Moreover, there were a few different drugs in glass bottles. The results reflect modernization of the medicine chest.
The Toki Medicine Chest represents the end of the medicine chest era, and this report also reveals the beginning of the medicine cabinet.
