COINCIDENT with the passion for horticulture in the Edo Period in Japan, the Europeans, in particular, the Dutch, had an obsession with the tulip. Given the close relationship of the the Dutch East India Company in Japan and its very active diffusion of Lilies and other plants from Japan to Europe, the possibility exists for at least a second line of bilateral horticultural diffusion between Japan and Holland.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022