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Sino-Iranica - The Search For Mecca

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<strong>Sino</strong>-<strong>Iranica</strong><br />

comprises nearly a hundred and sixty species, and of the cultivated fig<br />

there is a vast number of varieties.<br />

According to the Yamato-honzd 1 of 1709, figs (iUjiku) were first<br />

introduced into Nagasaki in the period Kwan-ei % 3K (1624-44) from<br />

the islands in the South-Western Ocean. This agrees with E. Kaem-<br />

pfer's 2 statement that figs were brought into Japan and planted by<br />

Portuguese.<br />

1 Ch. 10, p. 26 b.<br />

2<br />

History of Japan, Vol. I, p. 180 (ed. reprinted Glasgow, 1906).

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