Kurimoto Masayoshi | |
Birth Date: | September 10, 1921 |
Birth Place: | Kyoto, Japan |
Death Date: | November 22, 2003 |
Death Place: | Kyoto, Japan |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Alma Mater: | Kyoto University |
Known For: | Studying bird life in Japan and East Asia |
was a Japanese naturalist, zoologist and entomologist.
He was physician to the 11th Tokugawa shōgun Tokugawa Ienari Kurimoto Masayoshi lectured on Materia Medica. In 1811 he wrote Kurimoto’s Iconographia Insectorum which records 500 Japanese insects. In 1826 he met Philipp Franz von Siebold and they worked together. Kurimoto Masayoshi gave him drawings of Crustacea. One of these Squilla maculata a Mantis shrimp was used by Wilhem de Haan in Siebold's Fauna Japonica.