Dodonaeus, R. (English spelling) DodonaeusR

...He went to Kyoto and studied medicine under Yamawaki Genshu (Dotetsu), Confucianism under Namikawa Tenmin, and herbal medicine under Inao Wakamizu. In response to the Edo shogunate's policy of investigating domestic medicinal resources, he went to Edo in 1719 (the 4th year of the Kyoho era) to become a medicinal herb collector. Together with Wakamizu's fellow student Niwa Masataka, he engaged in medicinal herb collectors in Nikko and throughout the Kanto region, as well as in the Chubu, Hokuriku, and Kinki regions. In 1701, he traveled to the Izu Islands, and in the same year, he was given land for a house near the Kikoku Bridge in Edo. In 1706 (Genbun 4), he became a physician with official attendance, and the following year, at the order of Shogun Yoshimune, he studied Dutch with Aoki Konyo. Every year, he met with the head of the Edo court's trading post and physicians, and wrote and translated "Oranda honsho wakai" (1741), based on J. Johnston's atlas of plants and animals, and "Oranda honsho wakai" (1741-50), based on the herbal medicine of Dutch botanist and physician Rembert Dodonaeus (1516-85). In 1712 (Enkyo 3), he became a physician with official attendance and was awarded a stipend of 200 straw bales.

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…京都に上り医を山脇玄修(道立)，儒を並河天民，本草を稲生若水に学び，幕府の国産薬種資源調査の政策を受けて1719年(享保4)江戸に出て採薬御用となり，若水門の同学丹羽正伯とともに日光ほか関東一円，さらに中部，北陸，近畿各地で採薬に従事，34年には伊豆七島にも及んで，同年宅地を江戸紀国橋の傍らに賜った。39年(元文4)御目見医師となり，翌年将軍吉宗の命で青木昆陽とともにオランダ語を学習，江戸参府の商館長，医師らに毎年接してJ.ヨンストンの動植物図譜をもとに《阿蘭陀禽獣虫魚図和解》(1741)を，またオランダの植物学者であり医者のドドネウスRembert Dodonaeus(1516‐85)の本草書をもとに《阿蘭陀本草和解》(1741‐50)を撰訳した。46年(延享3)寄合医師となり200俵を賜禄された。…

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