It was cool, and most of the time there was nobody around at all, so I could sit in a chair and read a book quietly and comfortably ☺️✨🙏 I liked that with this book, the author was thinking about and working on the same perspective I have in mind. But it was a bit disappointing that the research leaned mostly on existing work, there were few new findings, and it wasn't explored in much depth. There were lots of other 📕 too, and it was nice to be able to read through the shelves and the exhibits 🙏

This is the memorial hall of Keita Shibata, a pioneer of plant physiology and plant biochemistry in Japan.

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He was the person who opened Japan's first course in plant physiology and biochemistry, and in 1918 he received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy for his research on flavone compounds in the plant kingdom. He worked on research into the mechanisms of plant fertilization and embryo development, and his research on cytochrome conducted jointly with Hiroshi Tamiya reached a world-class level, an achievement that dramatically raised the level of biological physiology and biochemistry in Japan. His portrait is placed beside the Shibata Memorial Hall. When I visited, the Shibata Memorial Hall was closed, so I couldn't look around inside.

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It has a somewhat hard-to-enter atmosphere, but it's totally fine. Even on holidays there are few visitors, but there's one staff member stationed there permanently, and I found myself needlessly worrying that weekdays must be really tough for them. I highly recommend visiting.

2024.06.02 Apparently this building was constructed in Taisho 8 as the "Physiological Chemistry Laboratory" using funds donated to the university.

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