PLANT LIFE ON LAND: BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

By SARAH WILSON

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION EAST ASIA’S PLANTS IN GEOLOGICAL TIME THE SLOW PROGRESSION OF PLANTS IN JAPAN HOW JAPANESE AND EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN PLANTS CAME TO LOOK LIKE EACH OTHER PLANTS IN EARLY MODERN JAPAN CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE IN JAPAN EUROPEANS EMBRACE JAPANESE PLANTS NATURAL HISTORY AND INDIGENOUS PLANTS SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATIONS EUROPEAN VISITORS POPULARIZE LINNAEUS HORTICULTURE SPREADS THROUGHOUT JAPAN LATE EDO-PERIOD PLANT SCIENTISTS SEEKING JAPANESE PLANTS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA “PLANTS AND SEEDS WANTED FROM CHINA AND JAPAN” EUROPEAN PLANT COLLECTORS IN JAPAN JAPANESE PLANTS ARRIVE IN AMERICA PLANTS AND COMMERCE PLANT EXPORTS TO THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY FOUNDATIONS OF PLANT BIOLOGY IN MODERN JAPAN BOTANICAL BEGINNINGS “A REVOLUTION IN EAST ASIAN BOTANY” INFRASTRUCTURE FOR RESEARCH DIVERSIFICATION AND SPECIALIZATION PLANT BIOLOGY IN JAPAN’S AGE OF EMPIRE MAKINO AND MINAKATA ON STUDYING NATURE JAPANESE PLANT BIOLOGY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY THE BOTANY OF EMPIRE PLANT BIOLOGISTS IN AN ERA OF SPECIALIZATION ENHANCED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR RESEARCH FURTHER DIVERSITY AND SPECIALIZATION PLANT ECOLOGY IN POSTWAR JAPAN AFTERWORD: JAPANESE PLANT BIOLOGY AND THE WORLD NOTES SOURCES CITED