« BackSekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)publicdomainreview.orgSubmitted by prismatic 6 days ago
  • sanufar 3 days 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 3 days 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).

      • gsf_emergency_6 3 days 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)

        • kazinator 2 days ago

          The word doesn't appear on the sword guard itself, though, so the object doesn't attest it.

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