Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

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• sanufar 1 day ago
  Big fan of the bottom right snowflake on this page: https://pdr-assets.b-cdn.net/collections/japanese-snowflake-...

  Transferring each snowflake by hand with tweezers is insane, what a feat
• kazinator 1 day ago
  It appears that the author of this work invented the word 雪華 (sekka); it originates in that book. Other than that, a snow crystal is just called ゆきの結晶 (yukinokesshō).
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  • gsf_emergency_6 1 day ago
    Related(?) word meaning sublimation

    https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%9D%E8%8F%AF

    1828 (4 years before this book launched)

    https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/517539

    (Sword guard)

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    • kazinator 1 day ago
      The word doesn't appear on the sword guard itself, though, so the object doesn't attest it.