Flora Japonica.

Japanese indigenous plants have fascinated botanists and horticulturalists for the past two centuries, and their discoveries still have a strong influence on the plants of today. Botanists such as Kaempfer, Thunberg, von Siebold and Maximowicz visited Japan between the 17th and 19th centuries, and c...

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Other Authors:	Yamanaka, Masumi, 1957- (Contributor), Rix, Martyn (Contributor), Ōba, Hideaki (Contributor), Murata, Jin, 1952- (Contributor), Koyama, Tetsuo, 1935- (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Richmond, Surrey, UK : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2016.
Subjects:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew > Exhibitions. Botanical illustration > Japan > History. Botanical illustration > Japan > 21st century. Plants > Japan > Pictorial works.

Table of Contents:

Foreward / HIH Prince Akishino
Introduction / Keichi Hayashi
Introduction : Flora japonica / Martyn Rix and Masumi Yamanaka
A brief history of botanical illustration in Japan / Hideaki Ohba
History of systematic botany in the Koishikawa Botanical Gardens, the University of Tokyo / Jin Murata
Chikusai Kato and the Koishikawa Botanical Garden collection
The botanical illustrations of Tomitaro Makino / Tetsuo Koyama
Tomitaro Makino and the Makino Botanical Garden collection
Sessai Hattori and the Makino Memorial Garden & Museum collection
Flora Japonica : the paintings
Acknowledgements
Authors' biographies
Further reading
Index.