《救荒本草》在日本的传承

Academic heritage of Jiu huang ben cao （ Materia Medica for Relief of Famines ） in Japan

《救荒本草》是中国历史上第1部救荒类本草专著，开创了可食用植物研究的新领域。该书大约在17世纪中后叶传人日本，受到日本著名本草学家的重视，不同传本系统的版本都在日本流传。其后，一些日本名家先后从传到日本的《农政全书》中析出《救荒本草》的内容单独校刻刊行，使《救荒本草》在日本得以更广泛地流传。

Jiu huang ben cao （Materia Medica for Relief of Famines） was the first monograph on famines herbal in the history of China, which creates a new research field of edible plants. Around the middie and late 17th century, Jiu huang ben cao was spread to Japan and aroused great attention of famous Japanese herbalists. Thus, all versions of different edition systems were circulated in Japan. Later, some famous Japanese scholar ssuccessively quoted texts of Jiu huang ben cao from the Nong zheng quan shu （ Whole book on Agricultural Administration） spread in Japan, and block-printed it as an independent work. As a result, Jiu huang ben cao virtually circulated widely in Japan.