2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A Basic Research of the "Saiyaku-ki" or "Records of Collecting Herbs" in Early Modern Japan.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15500662
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Sociology/History of science and technology
Research Institution	Meiji University
Principal Investigator	HIRANO Mitsuru MEIJI University, FACARTY OF Litterature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (10189855)
Project Period (FY)	2003 – 2006
Keywords	"SAIYAKUKI" / ONO Ranzan / YAMAMOTO Boyo / Honzougaku
Research Abstract	The purpose of my study is to approach a Japanese history of botany based on herbalists' own notes of collecting herbs in the field "採薬記". My approach is important because previous studys on this subject often depend only on herbalists' aruticles, i.e. secondary souurces. Eventually my study lead me to understanding the eary modern history of academic discipline in Japan. Since these reports became an essencial source of "Honzogaku", knouledge about herbs in Japan. Numerous herbalists made their own hand-written copies of the reports. Among the reports, I investigated into ONO Ranzan's Repots and YAMAMOTO Boyo's Reports as well as their various versions of the copies. I have clarified how these reports were written and which zersions of copies were further copied.

(4 results)