The bestselling book of Mushroom Art is now available in a new luxury English edition! Mushroom Botanical Art is a collection of mushroom and fungi paintings by European and Japanese naturalists in 18th to 19th century. The paintings each show the plant in its natural habitat and have been executed in a straightforward natural history illustration style with meticulous attention to detail. Beautiful color plate illustrations of each mushroom will attract both botanical art fans and lovers of mushrooms. It is pleasant to look and appreciate the beauty of these mushrooms, also useful for your own drawing and painting. Mushroom Botanical Art offers a curated anthology of 18th and 19th century mushroom and fungal illustrations from European and Japanese naturalists. Presented in a natural history illustration style, each plate shows specimens in their ecological settings, emphasizing taxonomic accuracy and aesthetic composition. This volume supports comparative studies in historical botanical art, fungal morphology, and conservation of biodiversity through visual documentation. It is valuable for researchers in mycology, art historians, and educators seeking historical primary visual sources and insights into the intersection of art and science in fungal recording. Toshimitsu Fukiharu holds a doctorate from Kyoto University in Forest and Biomaterials Science. He is a senior researcher at the Chiba Open-air Museum Boso-no-Mura and lectures at Kyoto University. His research focuses on natural history of fungi, especially ammonia fungi that decompose animal remains. His Japanese publications include Underneath Mushrooms Are Carcasses?! and The Many Faces of the Mysterious Mushroom.