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Tamura Gen'yû was a ''[[rangaku]]'' scholar and botany expert who served as the official shogunate expert on [[ginseng]].
He organized an exhibit in [[Edo]] in [[1757]], the first of its kind, displaying a wide variety of botanical samples. This was followed two years later by a similar exhibit organized by his student [[Hiraga Gennai]].
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==References==
*[[John Whitney Hall]], ''Tanuma Okitsugu (1719-1788): Forerunner of Modern Japan'', Harvard University Press (1955), 95.
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
