In the eighteenth century,Japanese honzogaku(bencao study,the study of materia medica)gradually changed from the tradition of textual practice involving Chinese books and names therein to more practical mode of study with much empha-sis on sensory and visual information.Such underlying transition is well reflected in the research practice honzo scholars have tak-en,which introduced more real observations,put more emphasis on accurate visual description and paid attention to specimens and material artefacts.Using the"Record of Medicinal Ingredients"in the Documents in Tsushima Souke Bunko as a primary ma-terial,this essay examines a Japanese project to survey species of plants and animals in Korea under the rule of Tokugawa Yoshi-mune during the Edo period,shedding light on the tendency to focus on accurately describing the appearance and visual charac-teristics of animals and plants.Its discussion on the one hand reconsiders how such a tendency of heavy emphasis on observation and description in the study of nature came about and discusses the significance of circulation of texts in the tradition of East Asian materia medica knowledge and revisits the social and cultural conditions of'scientificity'in the context of East Asia.
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江户时代/本草学/药材研究/东亚/科学史/对马岛宗家文书
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Edo period/honzogaku/materia medica/East Asia/history of science/the Documents in Tsushima Souke Bun-ko
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