Agricultural books

Japanese: 農書 - のうしょ

Agricultural books from before agriculture was established as a natural science. In Western Europe, there are many famous works, such as Hesiod's Works and Days, Virgil's Agricultural Poems, J. Fitzbert's Encyclopedia of Agriculture, J. Thal's Masui Farming Method, and Albrecht Theer's Principles of Rational Agriculture. The first agricultural book in Japan is the seven-volume Seiryo-ki by Matsuura Soan of Iyo Province. It was thought to have been written in 1564, but today it is widely believed to have been written after the Kan'ei era (1624-1643). Around the Genroku period (late 1600s), works such as Hyakusho-denki, Aizu Nosho, and Saizō-ki were published, but the most representative is Miyazaki Yasutada's Encyclopedia of Agriculture, which details the cultivation and raising of about 150 types of crops and livestock. In the late Edo period, there are works such as Sato Nobuhiro's "Six Plant Cultivation Methods," Okura Nagatsune's "Farmers' Benefits," and Shimazu Shigehide's "Illustrated Guide to Plant Formation," but they have a strong flavor of translations of Chinese and Dutch documents. In China, "Chen Zhi Nongshu" and "Wang Zhen Nongshu" are famous.

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自然科学として農学が成立する以前の農業書。西ヨーロッパでは古くはヘシオドスの『仕事と日々』，ウェルギリウスの『農耕詩』などから，J.フィッツバート『農業全書』，J.タル『馬耨農法』，アルブレヒト・テーア『合理的農業原論』など有名なものが多い。日本最初の農書としては，伊予国の松浦宗案『清良記』7巻があげられる。永禄7（1564）年の書とされていたが，今日では寛永年間（1624～43）以後の著とする見解が強い。元禄頃（1600年代末）になると『百姓伝記』『会津農書』『才蔵記』などが出るが，最も代表的なものは宮崎安貞の『農業全書』で，約 150種の作物，畜類の栽培・飼育法を詳述してある。江戸時代後期のものには佐藤信淵の『草木六部耕種法』，大蔵永常の『農家益』，島津重豪の『成形図説』などがあるが，中国やオランダの文献の翻訳の趣が強くなっている。中国では『陳旉農書』『王禎農書』などが有名。

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