Featured Chinese flower and plant books, translation please.

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  1. hamptonauction

    hamptonauction Well-Known Member

    Here are volumes XI to XV of multiple volumes? I showed example pages of the plants and flowers, each book has about 80 pages and there are pictures on every page and text on the facing page, many are hand-colored.
    I'm mostly interested in the translation of the yellow cover page and the inside red cover. Date, author. Thank you.

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  2. 2manybooks

    2manybooks Well-Known Member

    "Sengoku-mame, Fuji-mame" - Japanese, not Chinese.
     
  3. hamptonauction

    hamptonauction Well-Known Member

    Thank you for the correction.
     
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  4. Couch Potato Wannabe

    Couch Potato Wannabe Well-Known Member

    Yellow Cover
    飯沼慾齋著述 = Written by Iinuma Yokusai

    飯沼慾齋 = Iinuma Rokusai (1782-1865), a scientist in the Edo period of Japan . He studied Dutch science (orchidology) in Edo , which brought western botany research into Materia Medica. In 1856, he completed the 20-volume "Plants and Trees Illustrate". In the book, he adopted the Linnaeus classification system to replace the traditional Japanese method, classifying and depicting 1,215 species of plants.

    新訂草木圖説草部 = Introduction to grass and trees

    From Pink Page
    官許 = Official License (an authorised or verified edition)
    新訂艸木圖説 = New revision Ekphrasis (meaning a detailed description of a work of visual art. An illustrated guide)

    Iinuma, Yokusai飯沼慾斎, TanakaYoshio田中芳男, OnoMotoyoshi小野職愨, KuboHiromichi久保弘道, and YokokawaMasatoshi横川政利. Sōmoku zusetsu 草木図説 [An illustrated book of plants and trees]. Gifu: Hirabayashisō 平林荘, 1874.
     
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  5. hamptonauction

    hamptonauction Well-Known Member

    Thank you Couch Potato Wannabe sharing your time for the translation. I really appreciate it, I now have information for research. I tried several times to use a kanji translator but never succeeded.
    You are a valued member of the boards.
     
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