A BRIEF HISTORY OF BOTANY IiV OT.D JAPAN 227 



as sketch-iualvcv iindei- Si('1)o]d. In 1856, linuiua Yokusai publislied 

 the Somoliu Zusetsii in 20 volumes, in which plants were arranged 

 according to the Linnean System of classification. 



In 1846, commander Perry came to Uraga, and in 1859, five ports of 

 Japan were opened to Western nations, and the flow of Western civilization 

 pouring into the hosom of the awakened nation suddenly in^eased. In 

 1857 a bureau called the Banslio SHiirahe jo was established in Yedo in 

 wdiich researches in Western learning were intended to be carried on. This 

 bureau was the origin of the Tokyo Imx)erial University of the x)i-esent 

 day. In this bureau Ito Keiske and Tanaka Yoshio worked as represen- 

 tatives of the Natural History Investigation Section. Now we pass to 

 the present period which begins from 1868. The first botanist who 

 appeared in this period is Yatabe Eiokichi. He studied botany in 

 Cornell Univei-sity in the United States of America and came back to 

 Japan in 1877, and became professor of Botany in the Tokyo Imperial 

 University. He it was who educated most of the Japanese botanists of 

 the present century. 



The above is a brief history of botany in Japan. 



