. The industries of Japan : together with an account of its agriculture, forestry, arts, and commerce. From travels and researches undertaken at the cost of the Prussian government. gun, from theneighbouring Corea. Now that the youngerJapanese physicians havebegun to get more and moreacquainted with the Euro-pean methods and means oftreating diseases, the gin-seng-root has fallen verymuch in public esteem inJapan; although its culti-vation is about as great asever, and in some placesgreater, since it is shippedmore and more every yearto China, where it alwaysfinds ready purchasers. Itsexportat
. The industries of Japan : together with an account of its agriculture, forestry, arts, and commerce. From travels and researches undertaken at the cost of the Prussian government. gun, from theneighbouring Corea. Now that the youngerJapanese physicians havebegun to get more and moreacquainted with the Euro-pean methods and means oftreating diseases, the gin-seng-root has fallen verymuch in public esteem inJapan; although its culti-vation is about as great asever, and in some placesgreater, since it is shippedmore and more every yearto China, where it alwaysfinds ready purchasers. Itsexportation used to be inthe hands of the Dutch,at Nagasaki ; now it takespjace directly, mostly viaOsaka, through Japaneseand Chinese. In 1879 itreached the high figure of507,494 yen ; since then,however, it has fallen off alittle. Ginseng is cultivated inseveral hilly districts, at aheight of 300-800 meters,principally in Hondo. The chief of these are : 1. In the province of Idzumo, south of the capital Matsuye,on the mountain slopes of I-wu (I-wu-gori), and on the little Radish-island (Daikon-jima) in the Nakano-umi. 2. In the province of Hoki, on the northern side of the Fig. 7. AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES. 143 3. In Shinano along the Nakasendo, between the post-stationsIwamurata and Wada, and also near the city of Takeda, on theborder of Hida. 4. In Aidzu, about 140 miles north of Tokio, in several places,especially near Terayama and Matsukawa, and also near Kuradaniand Uchi, on the road from Sanno-toge to Wakamatsu. Besides these parts of the country, where ginseng cultivationwas observed by Kempermann or myself, it is also found, accordingto Maximowicz, near Hakodate, and in various other parts of theJapanese empire, as can be seen in the Catalogue of the Exhibitionof Agricultural Products held in Tokio in 1877. For a number of years the immense demand for ginseng in Chinahas been supplied in part, too, by the United States. The roots ofa species {Panax guinquefolius, L.) i
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