Title The knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge in early modern Japan / Federico Marcon

Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Contents Nature without nature : prolegomena to a history of nature studies in early modern Japan -- The Bencao gangmu and the world it created -- Knowledge in translation : Hayashi Razan and the glossing of Bencao gangmu -- Writing nature's encyclopedia -- The first Japanese encyclopedias of nature : Yamato honzō and Shobutsu ruisan -- Tokugawa Yoshimune and the study of nature in eighteenth-century Japan -- Inventorying nature -- Nature's wonders : natural history as pastime -- Nature in cultural circles -- Nature exhibited : Hiraga Gennai -- Representing nature : from "truth" to "accuracy" -- Bakumatsu honzōgaku : the end of eclecticism? -- Nature as accumulation strategy : Satō Nobuhiro and the synthesis of honzōgaku and keizaigaku Summary Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the world, developed into a system (called honzogaku) that rivaled Western science in complexity-and then seemingly disappeared. Or did it? In this book, Federico Marcon recounts how Japanese scholars developed a sophisticated discipline of natural history analogous to Europe's but created independently, without direct influence, and argues convincingly that Japanese natural history succumbed to Western science not because of suppression and substitution, as scholars traditionally have contended, but by adaptation and transformation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan gnd Subject Nature study -- Japan -- History Science -- Japan -- History NATURE -- Essays. NATURE -- Reference. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism. Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868 Nature study Science Naturgeschichte Fach SUBJECT Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069473 Subject Japan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226252063 022625206X

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