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to publish a collection of seals entitled " Shigado-impu " (^ft^ 

 PPfit) ! the manuscript of the preface of this work still remains 

 in his descendant's hands at Kyoto. The hanging scroll ex- 

 hibited in the first room (Fig. 5) representing an Evodia 

 and a Chrysanthemun is the production of his brush during 

 his student life. In 1765, he and his friend Furinsai {yf$$'$§) 

 published a botanical work entitled " Kwa-i " (;f£H) in 8 

 volumes, containing illustrations of 200 species of flowering 

 plants. All the figures and descriptions, with the exception of 

 the first two volumes, were worked out by Ranzan and arc 

 renowned for their accurac\^. Dr. Lud. Savatier translated 

 this work into French in 1873. In April 15, 1766, he made 

 an exhibition of objects of natural history, consisting of 450 

 specimens in Yaami-Hotel, at Higasl^ama, Kyoto. In 1771, 

 a monograph on orchidaceous plants by Jo-an Matsuoka in 

 two volumes was published by his son Ten Matsuoka (^[Sj^-) ; 

 the illustrations at the end of this work were all drawn by 

 Ranzan in dedication to his former teacher. In 1775, Karl 

 Peter Thunberg arrived at Nagasaki, and in the next year 

 passed Kyoto on his way to Yedo. Whether an interview took 

 place between these men of renown or not is a question, but a 

 knife and a medal of foreign origin said to have been sent him 

 by a Dutch physician, point to a probability of the occurrence. 

 In 1779 Karl von Linne died at the age of 72 at Upsala ; 

 Ranzan was then 51 years old. On the 13th September, 1780, 

 he commenced lectures on " Yamato-Honzo " (^^p^-^), the first 

 original treaty on the natural history of Japan in 16 volumes 

 by Ekiken Kaibara (^H^UfFf), published in Japanese, in 1783. 

 In these lectures, he pointed out the errors and mistakes of 

 the above author page after page and corrected them very 

 carefully. These lectures were not published but still remain 

 as a very good commentary on this celebrated classical work. 

 On the 13th March, 1782 he commenced another lectures on 

 " Hiden-kwakyo " (^#lHtl£M)» wri i c ^ were completed on the 9th 

 of December of the same 3 r ear. In 1786, he published a revised 

 edition of "Tsushi-konchu-somoku-ryaku " (i§^^^^/iC|B§), a 

 Chinese work on animals and plants. In 179S, he was just 70 



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