"Silkworm Rearing Handbook"

Japanese: 《蚕養育手鑑》 - かいこよういくてかがみ
"Silkworm Rearing Handbook"

...Ikuta Man, who started an uprising in Kashiwazaki, Echigo, was a samurai of the Tatebayashi domain. Other pioneers in agriculture included Baba Shigehisa, who wrote the silkworm-raising instruction manual Sankou Yoiku Tekan (1712), and Yoshida Shikei of Shibukawa. Japanese mathematics also flourished thanks to Seki Takakazu. In the field of Dutch medicine, notable figures include Murakami Zuiken, who administered smallpox, Ikoda Jundo, who invented the Caesarean section, and Fukuda Muneyoshi, who hid Takano Choei after he escaped from prison....

*Some of the terminology referenced in the "Silkworm Raising Handbook" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…越後柏崎で一揆を起こした生田万は館林藩士の出である。このほか養蚕指導書《蚕養育手鑑》(1712)を著した馬場重久や渋川の吉田芝渓など農学の先達があり,関孝和が出たので和算も盛んであった。蘭医学では種痘の村上随憲,帝王切開を創始した伊古田純道,脱獄した高野長英をかくまった福田宗禎らをあげることができる。…

※「《蚕養育手鑑》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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