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*''Born: [[1695]]''
*''Died: [[1777]]''
*''Japanese'': [[上村]]政勝 ''(Uemura Masakatsu)''
Uemura Masakatsu was a botanist & pharmacologist in the service of [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]].
Uemura managed the medicinal garden at [[Wakayama castle|Wakayama]] when Tokugawa Yoshimune was ''daimyô'' there. In [[1716]], when Yoshimune became shogun, Uemura accompanied him to [[Edo]], planting a larger pharmacological garden in Edo's Komaba neighborhood in [[1720]]. He left that same year on a journey to explore the plants and medicines of the country, a journey which in the end lasted 34 years. In [[1740]], he compiled a nine-volume account of his travels entitled ''Shoshu saiyaku-ki'', which he submitted to Yoshimune.
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==References==
*Plutschow, Herbert. ''A Reader in Edo Period Travel''. Kent: Global Oriental, 2006. p14.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
*''Died: [[1777]]''
*''Japanese'': [[上村]]政勝 ''(Uemura Masakatsu)''
Uemura Masakatsu was a botanist & pharmacologist in the service of [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]].
Uemura managed the medicinal garden at [[Wakayama castle|Wakayama]] when Tokugawa Yoshimune was ''daimyô'' there. In [[1716]], when Yoshimune became shogun, Uemura accompanied him to [[Edo]], planting a larger pharmacological garden in Edo's Komaba neighborhood in [[1720]]. He left that same year on a journey to explore the plants and medicines of the country, a journey which in the end lasted 34 years. In [[1740]], he compiled a nine-volume account of his travels entitled ''Shoshu saiyaku-ki'', which he submitted to Yoshimune.
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==References==
*Plutschow, Herbert. ''A Reader in Edo Period Travel''. Kent: Global Oriental, 2006. p14.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Samurai]]