A living archive extends Edo-period mathematical culture

The document preserves a chain of transmission and reminds readers that surviving artifacts may reproduce still earlier works.

The publication connects object history, translation and mathematical reconstruction for a general audience.

The publication describes a digital project documenting Japanese votive tablets that combine geometry, art and religious practice.

Photographs, transcriptions and metadata can bring locally held objects into a searchable research collection.

Decisions about cataloguing, translation and access influence which problems and makers become discoverable.