Useful Plants of Japan
The naturalist Tanaka Yoshio documented Japan's edible and medicinal plants with illustrator Hattori Sessai. A lifelong civil servant, he also founded Japan's oldest zoo in 1882.
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Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry
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