Jakusui asked Tsunanori MAEDA to be allowed to compile 'a study of various materials' and was commissioned to do so, receiving the order to edit the 'Shobutsuruisan' (book on the study of herbalism) which would complement the 'Compendium of Materia Medica,' considered the bible of herbalism at the time.
前田綱紀に「物類考」の編纂を申し出て採用され、当時における本草学のバイブルであった「本草綱目」を補う博物書である「庶物類纂」の編纂の下命を得た。