app. Autumn 2018 9Morino began to draw medicinal plants at the age of 60; his illustrations, com-piled in the Matsuyama-honzo, were completed after 18 years in 1767.Statue of first-generation Tosuke MorinoKudzu (Pueraria lobata) (Matsuyama-honzo)First-generation Tosuke Morino (1690-1767), born to an administrative family, had knowledge of how to produce high quality kudzu (Pueraria lobata) starch. He accompanied Saheiji Uemura on his mission to seek out and identify medicinal plants in Nara; in 1729, he was presented with six different medicinal plants by the Shogunate, which he cultivated in his garden. Morino observed the growth of these plants and drew detailed illustrations of each, compiling them in the ten-volume book Matsuyama-honzo (“Matsuyama herbal”). For centuries, Matsuyama-honzo has been highly regarded as authoritative historical documentation of specic medicinal herbs and specimens of that time. Morino also instructed local farmers how to grow their own medicinal plants, including bofu (Saposhnikovia divaricata), which came to be an important source of local income. His farm, now the Morino Herb Garden, in Uda, Nara prefecture spans 11,000m2 and was designated a his-torical site in 1926. It continues to be run today by successive generations of the family.
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