Trees and Greens - Ripening Blessings - The Edo Museum Series 3

Trees and Greens - Ripening Blessings - The Edo Museum Series 3 / ISBN 9784875024859 / Color illustrations with Japanese descriptions - Latin and English names included / 192-page hardcover, 4.5 x 7.25 inches, published by Kousakusha

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Small visual book from the "Edo Natural History Museum" series. Delicate Japanese beauty emerges.

From the masterpiece of Edo period botanical encyclopedia "Honzo Zufu", about 180 species are introduced, from vegetables and fruits to mushrooms, pine, bamboo, and plum. A masterpiece collection of "edible" plants.

Comprised of colored plates of about 2000 species of plants, "Honzo Zufu", the masterpiece of Edo period "Natural History Encyclopedia", includes many edible plants such as grains, vegetables, and fruits. Edo was also a time when new agricultural plants were actively introduced, some of which were used as famine foods, but at the same time, it seems that it greatly stimulated people's curiosity about "food".