Inō Nobuyoshi 稻生宣義 (Chinese: Dàoshēng Xuānyì, 1655–1715), conventionally known by his hào Inō Jakusui 稻生若水 (Chinese: Dàoshēng Ruòshuǐ). One of the most distinguished early-Edo honzōgaku (本草学) scholars and the principal Japanese systematiser of pharmacological-natural-history knowledge in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Native of Kyōto; trained under the Confucian scholar Itō Jinsai 伊藤仁齋. From 1693 he served the daimyō of Kaga (Maeda Tsunanori 前田綱紀) and was given the great task of compiling a comprehensive Sino-Japanese natural history — the Shobutsu ruisan 庶物類纂, a 362-maki encyclopaedia of all things — which he had only partly completed at his death (the work was finished posthumously by his disciple Niwa Shōhaku 丹羽正伯 in 1738, in 1054 maki, sponsored by the eighth Tokugawa shōgun Yoshimune as one of the principal scholarly works of the Kyōhō reforms). His Pàozhì quánshū 炮炙全書 (KR3ec089) is the principal Edo-period Japanese drug-processing manual, drawing on the Chinese Léi Xiào 雷斆 / Miù Xīyōng 繆希雍 pàozhì tradition adapted for Japanese pharmaceutical practice. Japanese scholar; not in CBDB.