Iinuma Yokusai

Yokusai Iinuma (1782-1865) was a Japanese botanist and physician.

Iinuma studied botany under Ono Ranzan.[1] He spoke Dutch and was a practitioner of Western medicine.[2][3] In 1856 he published the Somoku-zusetsu, the first botanical encyclopedia in Japan to use Linnaean taxonomy.[4][5] The strawberry species Fragaria iinumae is named after him.[6]

References

  1. Bartlett, H. H.; Sohara, Hide (1961). Japanese Botany. Los Angeles.
  2. Masashi Terashima (1943). Creative Nippon: An Epic of Japan's Scientific Achievements. Nippon Times, Limited.
  3. William E. Deal (2005). Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan. Infobase Publishing. pp. 31–. ISBN 978-0-8160-7485-3.
  4. Hoyt Long (14 December 2011). On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan. Stanford University Press. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-0-8047-7888-6.
  5. Alain Bouquet; Martin Geibel; Michael F. Clark; Silviero Sansavini; Manfred Fischer; Anthony N. Adams; J. M. Boursiquot; Christa Fischer; David L. Davies (2000). Proceedings of the 6th International Strawberry Symposium. International Society for Horticultural Science. ISBN 978-90-6605-642-8.
  6. Kew Bulletin. H.M. Stationery Office. 1910.
  7. IPNI.  Iinuma.
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