Border-Crossing Botanicals: The Curious History of Saffron in Japan

Author: The Huntington

Susan Burns, professor of history at the University of Chicago, explores the incorporation of saffron into Japanese pharmacology, a complex process that involved the rise of natural science and a "productive confusion" that linked saffron with other botanicals.
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