李时珍的（本草纲目）（】593）问世后不到20年，即东传日本。当时正值日本江户初期，幕府将军重视学术的振兴，所以（本草纲目）很快得以顺利传播。其中最先得到（本草纲目》而且进行深人研究的是幕府学者林罗山。他为了把（本草纲目》介绍给国人，推动日本本草学的发展，先后 Li Shizhen’s (Compendium of Materia Medica) (No. 593) is less than 20 years after his advent, which is known as Japan in the East. At the time when Japan was in the early days of the Edo period, the general shogunate paid attention to the revitalization of the academic field. Therefore, the (Compendium of Materia Medica) was quickly spread. One of the first to get the (Compendium of Materia Medica) and to conduct in-depth studies was the shogun scholar Lin Luoshan, who introduced the (Compendium of Materia Medica) to the people and promoted the development of Japanese herbal medicine.