Isao Ijima Explained

Isao Ijima
Native Name:飯島魁
Birth Date:July 24, 1861
Native Name Lang:ja
Employer:Tokyo Imperial University
Known For:Founder of Parasitology
Alma Mater:Imperial University, Tokyo

was a Japanese zoologist known for his studies of sponges (Porifera) — including his circumscription of the genus Staurocalyptusleeches (Hirudinea), flatworms (Turbellaria), birds, and fish.[1] [2] Professor of Zoology at Tokyo Imperial University, he is considered the founder of parasitology in Japan and was the first President of the Ornithological Society of Japan.[1] Taxa named in his honour include Ijima's sea snake[3] and Ijima's leaf warbler.[4] [5]

Biography

Born in Hamamatsu in 1861 into a samurai family of Hamamatsu Domain, at the age of fifteen he entered the Kaisei Gakkō [ja] school in Tokyo, before enrolling as a student in the Science College at the Imperial University, Tokyo in 1878.[1] [2] There he studied under Edward Sylvester Morse and Charles Otis Whitman.[2] In 1879, together with, both having previously received training from and assisted Morse in his exploration of the Ōmori Shell Mounds, Ijima excavated the Okadaira Shell Mound; this is credited with being the first modern archaeological survey conducted solely by Japanese.[6] [7] [8] Upon graduation in 1881, as one of three from the first cohort in the Department of Zoology, he became an assistant in the College.[1] [2] The next year he went to Germany to study zoology at the University of Leipzig, where he spent three years working under the direction of Doctor Rudolf Leuckart; he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1884.[1]

Returning to Japan in 1886, at the age of 25 he was appointed Professor of Zoology at the Imperial University, Tokyo, where he remained until his death.[1] [2] In 1893, with the description of Parus owstoni (now Sittiparus owstoni or Owston's tit), he became the first zoologist from Japan to describe a bird.[9] [10] In 1903, he was involved in the establishment of and in 1904 he was appointed the second director of the Misaki Marine Biological Station [ja].[2] [11] In 1912, he was the founding president of the Ornithological Society of Japan.[2] In 1918, he published his influential .[2] [12] In his personal life, Ijima enjoyed hunting, shooting, fishing, wine, and smoking a pipe.[1] He died in 1921.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Yoshida . Sadao . Isao Ijima: The Father of Parasitology in Japan (With Potrait Plate) . The Journal of Parasitology . The American Society of Parasitologists, Allen Press . 10 . 3 . 1924 . 0022-3395. 3270877 . 165–167 .
  2. http://ornithology.jp/wabun/JJO100kinen_go.pdf . ja:日本鳥学会100年の歴史 . The 100-Year History of The Ornithological Society of Japan . ja . Japanese Journal of Ornithology . 2012 . 61 . 9 ff.
  3. [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, B.]
  4. Book: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds . Beolens, B. . Watkins, M. . Grayson, M. . London . . 2014 . 978-1-4729-0573-4. 624 pp. (Ijima, pp. 274–275).
  5. Web site: Wildlife of Miyakejima Island|Natural parks in Tokyo . 東京都環境局 . October 9, 2021.
  6. Web site: https://www.edu.pref.ibaraki.jp/board/bunkazai/kuni/shiseki/12-23/12-23.html . ja:陸平貝塚 . Okadaira Shell Mound . ja . Ibaraki Prefectural Board of Education . June 8, 2022.
  7. Book: Isomura . Yukio . Sakai . Hideya . ja:国指定史跡事典 . National Historic Site Encyclopedia . ja . 2012 . 学生社 . 978-4311750403 . 91.
  8. Web site: https://www.city.shinagawa.tokyo.jp/jigyo/06/historyhp/pdf/moyoshi/19/19tokubetu.pdf . ja:特別展 大森貝塚発掘130周年・区政60周年記念事業「日本考古学は品川から始まった-大森貝塚と東京の貝塚-」. Special Exhibition: 130th Anniversary of the Excavation of the Ōmori Shell Mounds and 60th Anniversary of the Formation of the Ward "In Shinagawa Japanese Archaeology Began — the Ōmori Shell Mounds and the Shell Mounds of Tokyo" . ja . . June 8, 2022.
  9. ja:日本人の手によつて記録された鳥類 . List of Birds Described by the Japanese Authors . en,ja . . . 1942 . 11 . 53–54 . 270–351 . 10.3838/jjo1915.11.270. free .
  10. [Description of a New Species of ''Parus'' from Miyakeshima] ]. . Dōbutsugaku zasshi . 1893 . 5 . 62 . 445–446. (in Japanese).
  11. Web site: History (Taisho Period) . MMBS . September 1, 1923 . October 9, 2021.
  12. Utinomi . Huzio . species:Huzio Utinomi . A Review of the Japanese Species of Alcyonium, with Descriptions of Two New Species and an Almost Forgotten Rare Species (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) . Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory . 23 . 3–5 . October 30, 1976 . 0037-2870 . 191–204 . 10.5134/175942 . 2433/175942 . 59425096 . la . October 9, 2021 . free.