Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde 2014 – Thousand Character Book

The Thousand Character Book contains the Thousand Character story. It has exactly one thousand characters, each character being used once. It was used in schools to learn Chinese characters. This book also contains the Japanese corresponding characters and the pronounciation in Korean letters. It belonged to Philipp Franz von Siebold. It dates from pre 1829 AD.

The Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde is the Dutch national museum of ethnology. It was established in 1837.