Iinuma Yokusai Explained

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]

Notes and References

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

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