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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.
References
- John Whitney Hall, Tanuma Okitsugu (1719-1788): Forerunner of Modern Japan, Harvard University Press (1955), 95.