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The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding the nineteenth century transposition of ""the real"" in the decades before photography was introduced. This intellectual history is informed by a careful examination of a network of local scholars-from physicians to farmers to bureaucrats-known as Shohyaku-sha. In their archival materials, these scholars used the term shashin (which would, years later, come to signify ""photography"" in Japanese) in a wide variety of medical, botanical,

J7530 --- J7000.70 --- Art and science --- -Botanical illustration --- -Plant prints --- -Photography --- -Realism in art --- -Realism (Art) --- Plant impressions --- Botanical drawing --- Flower painting and illustration --- Fruit painting and illustration --- Illustration, Botanical --- Science and art --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- biology -- botany, flora --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan --- -History --- 19th century --- -19th century --- Botanical illustration --- Photography --- Plant prints --- Realism in art --- Realism (Art) --- Idealism in art --- Naturalism in art --- Romanticism in art --- Nature prints --- Plants in art --- Biological illustration --- Natural history illustration --- Science --- History --- Japan: Science and technology -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- botany, flora