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years old; on his birthday his friends and pupils celebrated his 

 70th Anniversary in a hotel at Higashiyama, Kyoto. On that 

 occasion he wrote a small pamphlet entitled "Juppinko" (+00^7) 

 in return for the celebration. In the winter of the same year, 

 he was called to Yedo to occupy a chair in "Seijukwan " ($$M%t)> 

 the only medical institute at that time, as professor of natural 

 history and materia medica. He came to Yedo on April of the 

 next year, after completing the publication of the revised 

 edition of " Kyuko-honzo " (^C)'i'£^C^)- : ' In 1801, when he was 

 seventy-three years old, he made an official botanical excursion 

 to Nikko, followed by his grandson Kf.iho (j^tw/O ail( l about 

 a dozen of his pupils. He departed from Yedo on the 7th of 

 April, and returned home on ISth Ma}- travelling through the 

 provinces of Hitachi and Shimotsuke. An account of this tour 

 entitled "Joya-saiyakuki " (SW^HHS.) i n h' s own hand writing, 

 is still preserved in the Imperial Library. 



On August of the same year he made an another botanical 

 excursion by order of the Yedo government, in the provinces of 

 Kai, Suruga, Idzu and Sagami He left Yedo on the 22nd 

 August, and returned on the 3rd October. While on this 

 journey, he ascended Fujiyama on the 29th of August. A 

 catalogue of liis collection of plants and other natural objects 

 with dates and localities, entitled "Kosun-toso-saiyakuki" (i|'-V; 

 a^B$RISilfi) ' s exhibited on the table in the 1st room together 

 with his other compilations. In L802, he was requested by 

 the governor of the same district, to proceed to the province 

 of Kii, on uii exploring mission. In February of the same year, 

 he left Yedo and arrived a1 Wakayama, the capital of Kii. 

 and continued on bis travels In the province, till he returned 

 to Yedo on the 28th of May. Be presented a catalogue of 

 collected specimen--, entitled " Kishu-saiyakuki " ( £il'j'bM£$ii>ii I '" 

 the central governmenl and to the governor of the province. 

 In 1 so:;, tin- publical ion ol his " Honzo I onio|<ud<cimo " ( 4: i*,' 1 .' ft'ij | 1 

 i, .-i commentary on Chinese materia medica, in I s volume . 



1 The in- 1 Japone e edition of this < I I M \ 1 -1 ..1. \ 



1716, I'm the I il Gre of 1789 in K 



