FUJISAWA Nangaku and Seal Art

HAKUEN collection of Kansai university includes seal collection amounts to 172 items. These seals were possession of FUJISAWA Nangaku, the famous leader of HAKUEN Academy in Osaka, and were all made by well-known artists between late Edo era, Meiji, and Taisho era. This paper will discuss about the relation of Nangaku and traditional arts such as painting, calligraphy, and seal art

On Ritual Thought of Jeong Jedu (鄭齊斗) : Yangming School and Confucian Rituals in Korea

Jeong Jedu (1649-1736) was a Yangming school philosopher of the late Joseon period, a quite unusual figure in an era in which the Neo‑Confucian teachings of the Zhu Xi school had become the reigning orthodoxy in intellectual circles. Even so, previous scholarship has noted his "Neo‑Confucian conservatism" and "rightist tendencies." Jeong wrote extensively on the theory and practice of Confucian ritual, and since he largely based his discussion on texts of Zhu Xi\u27s Jia li (Family Rituals) and Xiao xue (The Elementary Learning), he is said to have been inclined toward the Zhu Xi school. Following a careful examination of the writings of both Jeong Jedu and Wang Shouren, this paper provides substantive evidence that this is a misinterpretation of Jeong\u27s thought. In short, Jeong\u27s thought had lost none of its essence as that of a scholar of the Yangming school, nor had it made a rightward turn or a hybridization with Zhu Xi\u27s Neo‑Confucianism. Instead, as this paper will make clear, Jeong Jedu\u27s thinking on ritual, including his views on its relationship with morality and ethics, was quite faithful to the philosophy of Wang Shouren. It also points to the unique characteristics of the morality and ethics of the Wang Yangming school in general

Ontogenetische u. phylogenetische Forschung über das Vorkommen von Fett u. Lipoid, besonders von Cholesterinester, im Bulbus verschiedener Wirbeltiere II. Mitteilung: Über den Bulbus des Hühnerembryos

Der Verfasser hat bereits mitgeteilt, dass bei der systematischen Untersuchung beim Kaninchenembryo das Vorkommen des Lipoides, besonders des Cholesterinesters in allen Bulbusgeweben viel stärker war, als er erwartet hatte. Bei seiner diesbezüglischen Untersuchung im Hühnerembryo stellte der Verfasser dasselbe wie im Kaninchenembryo fest. Der Verfasser berichtete weiter über die Färbungs- u. optischen Verhältnisse jener Substanz beim Hühnerembryo im Vergleich zu denen beim Kaninchenembryo

Ontogenetische und phylogenetische Forschung über das vorkommen von Fett und Lipoid, besonders von Cholesterinester im Bulbus verschiedener Wirbeltiere. (VI. Mitteilung.) Über den Bulbus von Fische.

Der Verfasser hat, zum Schluss seiner Arbeit, über die Fett- und Lipoid-Substanz des Bulbus von einigen Arten der Selachier und Teleostier erforscht. Im allgemeinen erscheint bei den Fischen die Lipoid-Substanz hauptsächlich in der Retina, im anderen Augengewebe nur wenig. Die alle Farbungs-Reactionen von Lipoidsubstauzen sind im Pigmentepithel und in der Sehzellenschicht auffallend bemerkbar, und auch die doppelbrechende Lipoid wird in jeder Schicht der Retina sehr deutlich nachweisen. Die vor allem merkwürdigste Erscheinung bei den Fischen-Netzhaut ist diejenige der Oeltropfen im Pigmentepithel von Cyprinus und Carassius. Das pigmentepithel dieser Fische wird von den zahlreichen grossern und Kleineren Oelkugeln erfüllt, die durch Sudan III sehr deutlich gelblichrot, durch Nilblau tiefblau gefarbt werden. Das Oelkulgelchen drängt in der Sehzellenschicht hinein entlang den Pigmentfortsatz, als ob die von dem Pigmentepithel abgesonderte Substanz in der Sehzellen eingeführt werden

Crystal structure of the human p58 killer cell inhibitory receptor (KIR2DL3) specific for HLA-Cw3-related MHC class I

AbstractBackground: T cells and natural killer (NK) cells perform complementary roles in the cellular immune system. T cells identify infected cells directly through recognition of antigenic peptides that are displayed at the target cell surface by the classical major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules. NK cells monitor the target cell surface for malfunction of this display system, lysing potentially infected cells that might otherwise evade recognition by the T cells. Human killer cell inhibitory receptors (KIRs) control this process by either inhibiting or activating the cytotoxic activity of NK cells via specific binding to MHC class I molecules on the target cell.Results: We report the crystal structure of the extracellular region of the human p58 KIR (KIR2DL3), which is specific for the human MHC class I molecule HLA-Cw3 and related alleles. The structure shows the predicted topology of two tandem immunoglobulin-like domains, but comparison with the previously reported structure of the related receptor KIR2DL1 reveals an unexpected change of 23° in the relative orientation of these domains.Conclusions: The altered orientation of the immunoglobulin-like domains maintains an unusually acute interdomain elbow angle, which therefore appears to be a distinctive feature of the KIRs. The putative MHC class I binding site is located on the outer surface of the elbow, spanning both domains. The unexpected observation that this binding site can be modulated by differences in the relative domain orientations has implications for the general mechanism of KIR–MHC class I complex formation

THE SYNTHESIS OF D-EVALOSE

D-Evalose (1: 6-deoxy-3-C-methyl-D-mannose) was synthesized from methyl 3, 3′-anhydro-4, 6-O-benzylidene-3-C-hydroxymethyl-2-O-methyl-α-D-mannopyranoside (3) through five-step derivations, and the structure was confirmed by the conversion into D-nogaloside (8: methyl 6-deoxy-3-C-methyl-2,3,4-tri-O-methyl-α-D-mannopyranoside)

A FACILE SYNTHESIS OF METHYL 4,6-DIDEOXY-3-c-METHYL-4-METHYLAMINO-α-L-MANNOPYRANOSlDE (SIBIROSAMINIDE)

The title branched-chain sugar obtained by methanolysis of sibiromycin was easily synthesized from L-rhamnose through eight-step conversions