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金生樹譜
江戸時代後期刊
長生舎主人(栗原信充)著

 江戸時代後期に刊行された、鉢植え・盆栽などの園芸指南書です。栽培の留意点を、様々な資料や詳しい挿絵を添えて、詳しく解説しています。
 書名の「金生樹」は「カネのなる木」の意味で、万年青(おもと)・福寿草・橘・蘇鉄・南天・松葉蘭・石斛(せっこく)のこと。当時栽培が流行していたこれらの植物の名品が、法外な高値で取引されたことからの命名です。この本を読めば、高い値のつくような立派な鉢植えを栽培できますよという、著者の自信の表れでしょうか。
 著者の「長生舎主人」とは石斛の異名“長生(ちょうせい)草(そう)”からつけられた筆名です。本名は栗原信充、考証学者・国学者として知られる旗本ですが、本書のほかにも園芸書を刊行しており、また筆名の由来ともあいまって、相当な園芸好きのお侍であったことがわかります。
 本書は3巻構成になっており、1巻目は植物に合った鉢のいろいろ、鉢を並べる台や棚のしつらえ方、室(むろ)(温室)・冷窖(ひやし)(冷蔵室)などを図入りで解説しています。2巻目は各地の銘木の絵図集、そして3巻目は接ぎ木・取り木・挿し木のしかた、立派な実をつけさせるための手入れや肥料の方法、園芸用具類の図解、栽培に適した土ごしらえの説明などが収載されます。実に細やかで実用的な解説書で、今から200年近く前の江戸時代後期、日本にはすでにこんなに高度な園芸花卉技術があったのだと驚かされます。

Kinseiju Fu (Book of Money Making Trees)
Published: Late Edo era
Writer: master Choseisha (Nobumitsu Kurihara)

Kinseiju Fu is a gardening guidebook of potted plants, bonsais, and more, published in the late Edo era. Through words and illustrations this book explains points of caution on how to take care of plants.
"Kinseiju" means "Money Making Trees" and is about omoto, adonis, tachibana, cycad, nandin, whisk fern and dendrobiums. At that time, growing plants was popular and these plants were priced so unreasonably high, the book therefore got its name. It seems the author explains with confidence how to grow these expensive plants by reading this book.
The author, master Choseisha, took this name from another name of dendrobium, choseiso, meaning plants of longevity. His real name is Nobumitsu Kurihara and he is known as a scholar of historical investigation as well as classical Japanese studies. He was known as a samurai, but also an avid gardener. He published this book and others, so we understand his love for plants.
There are three books in the series. Complete with illustrations, the first introduces pots and how to make stands and shelves on which to place them. It also explains greenhouses and refrigeration rooms. The second explains famous trees around the nation. The third book explains grafting, pruning, replanting the cutting, how to care for and fertilize plants. It contains illustration of gardening tools and soil suitable for cultivation. The book is so precise and practical it’s surprising that people had such high gardening skills in the late Edo era nearly 200 years ago.