Iinuma Yokusai

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Iinua bust in Ōgaki
Memorial stone

Iinuma Yokusai ( Japanese 飯 沼 慾 歳 ; born July 19, 1782 in Kameyama ( Ise Province ); died June 27, 1865 ) was a Japanese doctor and botanist.

Live and act

Iinuma Yokusai studied medicine and worked in Mino in Gifu prefecture . He expanded his knowledge by studying western science, " Rangaku " in Edo under Udagawa Yoan . Honzogaku (本草 学), botany, he studied under Ono Ranzan (小野 蘭山; 1729-1810) and Mizutani Toyobumi (水 谷 豊 文; 1779-1833).

His plant atlas "Sōmoku zuetsu" (草木 図 説), which he completed in 1856, shows 1215 plants in 20 volumes. He was the first in Japan to arrange plants according to the Linnaeus principle of plant classification ( Species Plantarum ). This marked the end of the traditional Japanese system.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Erected in Kameyama on the site of Iinuma's birthplace.
  2. ↑ Today Mie Prefecture .

literature

  • S. Noma (Ed.): Iinuma Yokusai . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 585.
  • James R. Bartholomew: The Formation of Science in Japan . Yale University Press 1989. ISBN 0-300-04261-2 .
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Iinuma is the family name, Yokusai the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Iinuma, Yokusai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 飯 沼 慾 歳 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Kameyama ( Mie Prefecture )
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1865