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...

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Corporate Author: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Issuing body)
Other Authors: Yamanaka, Masumi, 1957- (Contributor)
Rix, Martyn (Contributor)
Ōba, Hideaki (Contributor)
Murata, Jin, 1952- (Contributor)
Koyama, Tetsuo, 1935-2024 (Contributor)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Foreward, introduction, and common plant name text also appear in Japanese.
Published: Richmond, Surrey : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2016.
Subjects:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew > Exhibitions.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Botanical illustration > Japan > History.
Botanical illustration > Japan > 21st century.
Plants > Japan > Pictorial works.
Botanical illustration.
Plants.
Japan.
2000-2099
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Pictorial works.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Pictorial works.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Physical Description:252 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / 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.