Prologue ix
Part I. Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Nature without Nature: Prolegomena to a History of Nature Studies in Early Modern Japan 3
Chapter 2
The Bencao gangmu and the World It Created 28 Part II. Ordering Names: 1607–1715 51
Chapter 3
Knowledge in Translation: Hayashi Razan and the Glossing of Bencao gangmu 55
Chapter 4
Writing Nature’s Encyclopedia 72
Chapter 5
The First Japanese Encyclopedias of Nature: Yamato honzō and Shobutsu ruisan 87
Part III. Inventorying Resources: 1716–36 111
Chapter 6
Tokugawa Yoshimune and the Study of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Japan 115
Chapter 7
Inventorying Nature 140 Part IV. Nature’s Spectacles: The Long Eighteenth Century (1730s–1840s) 153
Chapter 8
Nature’s Wonders: Natural History as Pastime 161
Chapter 9
Nature in Cultural Circles 179 Chapter 10
Nature Exhibited: Hiraga Gennai 207 Chapter 11
Representing Nature: From “Truth” to “Accuracy” 228
Part V. The Making of Japanese Nature: The Bakumatsu Period 251
Chapter 12
Bakumatsu Honzōgaku: The End of Eclecticism? 255
Chapter 13
Nature as Accumulation Strategy: Satō Nobuhiro and the Synthesis of Honzōgaku and Keizaigaku 276
Epilogue 299
Acknowledgments 307
List of Japanese and Chinese Terms 309
Notes 329
Index 397
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