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Land of Plants in Motion - Japanese Botany and the World (Paperback)
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Land of Plants in Motion - Japanese Botany and the World (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives on the Global Past
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Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine
two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone
and how the Japanese islands evolved an astonishing wealth of plant
species, and (2) the growth of Japanese botanical sciences. The
majority of plant species regarded as ""Japanese"" trace their
origins to western China and the eastern Himalaya but are so
indigenized that they often seem native today. Early modern
scientists in Japan drew on knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine
but achieved distinctive insights into plant life commensurate with
but separate from their European counterparts. Scholars at the
University of Tokyo pioneered Japanese plant biology in the late
nineteenth century. They incorporated Western botanical methods but
sought a degree of difference in taxonomy while also gaining
international legitimacy through publications in English. Japan's
age of empire (1895-1945) was less about plant exploration and more
about plant collection, for both scientific and economic benefits.
Displays of species from throughout the empire made Japan's sphere
of colonization and conquest visible at home. The infrastructure
for research and instruction expanded slowly after World War Two:
new laboratories, botanical gardens, scholarly societies, and
publications eventually allowed for great diversity of specialized
study, especially with the growth of molecular biology in the 1970s
and DNA research in the 1980s. Basic research was harmed by cuts in
government funding during 2012-2017, but Japanese plant biologists
continue to enjoy international esteem in many fields of
scholarship.
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