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[BOTANICAL] Li Shizhen, revised by Ino^ Jakusui : Shinko^sei HONZO^ KO^MOKU

[BOTANICAL] Li Shizhen, revised by Ino Jakusui. Shinkosei HONZO KOMOKU. Kyoto & Edo. Shotoku 4 [1714]. Ohon size, 26.8 x 17.7 cm. Ino [1655-1715], an important traditional doctor, revised and enlarged Li Shizhen [1518- 93]'s seminal work of materia medica, which had been imported into Japan through Nagasaki in the early 17th century. Hayashi Ranzan [1583-1657] procured a copy of the Chinese edition in Nagasaki in 1607 and presented it to the Bakufu, which undertook a variety of state sponsorship of herbal medicine, planting two herb gardens near Edo, one in Ushigome and one in Shinagawa. There had been at least one Japanese printing of the original Chinese work in the mid 17th century but the edition at hand, the revised and enlarged Japanese edition of this important work, is the definitive version, undertaken by Ino Jakusui [1655-1715]. The HONZO KOMOKU would go through several subsequent Japanese editions and there is at least one exhaustive version done in modern Japanese in the 20th century, as well. Our copy is complete. There are 52 volumes, bound in 37, then another 12 supplementary volumes bound in 8, for a total of 64 volumes bound in 45. Of the 45 bound up volumes, four are illustrated in b+w woodcut. The printings throughout are good or better. Most volumes have their original worn title labels. There is very little internal soiling, but some worming throughout. Very unusual in any state, even more so in this good condition throughout., Good

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