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Ranbiki - Carl Lavoie - 11-30-2023
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"Japanese distillation apparatus (Edo period). Murakami Medical Archives, Nakatsu (Oita Prefecture, Japan). Its Japanese name ranbiki derives from Portuguese alembique (< Arab. al-'anbiq < Greek ambix, cup)."
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ranbiki.JPG
RE: Ranbiki - Paul Ferguson - 11-30-2023
"In 1672, six Japanese interpreters compiled a detailed, illustrated report describing the production of a series of pharmaceutical oils. They had gathered their information from a European pharmacist at Dejima, the Dutch trading post where the distillations were performed. For the first time, a technology with which to refine oil was introduced to Japan, together with Western distillation apparatus that, for that time, was rather sophisticated."
http://wolfgangmichel.web.fc2.com/publ/aufs/72/072.htm