Doi Toshitsura was a feudal lord in Edo-period Japan who studied snow for about twenty years. His 1832 book of woodblock prints, Sekka Zusetsu, has eighty-six drawings of what he called "snow flowers" (sekka), plus a dozen m…
A Japanese lord spent 20 years drawing snowflakes under a microscope
Sekka Zusetsu, an 1832 Japanese book, records 86 snowflakes drawn under a microscope by a feudal lord.
