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Nine Years in Nipon - Sketches of Japanese Life and Manners (Paperback)
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Nine Years in Nipon - Sketches of Japanese Life and Manners (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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The Scottish doctor Henry Faulds (1843-1930) is best remembered for
his role in the history of fingerprinting. His strong religious
faith had first led him to missionary work in India and then, from
1874, in Japan. He worked there as a surgeon in the mission
hospital at Tsukiji, near Tokyo, where he also established a
medical school and a school for the blind. It was his discovery of
the impressions of thumbprints on ancient Japanese pottery which
led to his development of a fingerprinting system and his
championing of it as a forensic tool. The present work,
part-travelogue, part-journal, was first published in 1885. It
remains an engaging account of Japanese life, customs, geography
and natural history, interwoven with discussions of topics such as
education, language, and the future of the country. There are
characterful line drawings throughout. Faulds' Dactylography (1912)
is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
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