Nobuyoshi Ino

...A herbalist in the mid-Edo period. His given name was Sengi, his pen name was Shoshin, his pen name was Wakamizu, and his common name was Shosuke, and he later changed his own name to Toujiyakusui. He was born in Edo to a Confucian physician, Ino Koken. In 1693 (6th Genroku), he was summoned by Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, as a Confucian scholar and herbalist. He aimed to compile a 1000-volume collection of Shobutsu Ruisan, and began the work under Tsunanori's patronage, but died after completing only 362 volumes. This is a collection of articles on plants and animals found in Chinese literature, and is a herbalist book with a strong tendency toward meibutsugaku and natural history. ...

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…江戸中期の本草家。名は宣義，字は彰信，号は若水，通称は正助，のちにみずから稲若水（とうじやくすい）と改名。儒医稲生恒軒を父として江戸に生まれる。1693年(元禄6)加賀藩主前田綱紀に儒者，本草家として召し出された。《庶物類纂》1000巻の編述を志し，綱紀の後援のもとに作業をはじめ，362巻を完成しただけで死去した。これは中国文献にある動植物の記事を集録したもので，名物学，博物学の傾向が強い本草書である。…

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