抄録
In the collection “Materials related to Akashi Hiroakira donated by Mr.
Akashi Hiro’omi, ” in the Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives, there is a
hanging scroll of the “Portrait of Hippocrates” (Frontispiece 1) for which
the Dutch scholar Udagawa Yōan (1798-1846) wrote a Dutch inscription. It
is based on the copperplate illustration of Historische kronyck (Leiden 1698)
by Johann Ludwig Gottfried (1584-1633), and is similar to the copperplate
portrait of Hippocrates held by Waseda University Library, which was
introduced in Ogata Tomio’s The Praise of Hippocrates in Japan (1971).
However, in the case of this work, the painting is by ink on paper, and
Udagawa’s inscription is written in pen. Akashi Hiroakira (1839-1910), the
former owner of the scroll, was a bureaucrat in Kyoto Prefecture for about
10 years from 1870, devoting himself to scientific and technological education
and the development of the medical system. This article discusses the
“Portrait of Hippocrates” owned by Akashi. A description of the work
(hereafter, “Akashi version”) is given here:
