Note to players: description acceptable. Nakagane Masahira’s A Guide to World Customs features an illustration of an influential figure in this field staring at a fallen plum. Takano Choei’s “A Short Record of a Meeting with Misfortune” provides a history of this field, which he wrote about while arrested for criticizing the government’s handling of the Morrison Incident. The author of the essay On Farting, Hiraga Gennai, used principles from this field to develop the (*) Elekiter. This general field, much knowledge of which was gained from so-called “Red Heads,” was the major subject of 1770s books traded on the island of Dejima due to bans on references to “God.” Western science and technology were the primary subjects of, for 10 points, what field developed through contact with the Netherlands? ■END■
ANSWER: Dutch learning [or rangaku; accept science or technology before mentioned; accept Western learning before mentioned; accept physics or mechanics for a buzz on the first sentence, afterwords prompt on physics or mechanics or other fields like medicine by asking “What general field is this a part of?”]
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