IIIF Color HighRes
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Citation Information
414 SING-IRANICA
comprises nearly a hundred and sixty species, and of the cultivated fig there is a vast number of varieties.
According to the Yamato-honzôl of 1709, figs Rijiku) were first
introduced into Nagasaki in the period Kwan-ei c (1624-44) from
the islands in the South-Western Ocean. This agrees with E. KAEMPFER'S2 statement that figs were brought into Japan and planted by Portuguese.
1 Ch. 10, p. 26 b.
2 History of Japan, Vol. I, p. 180 (ed. reprinted Glasgow, 1906).
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