Kurimoto Masayoshi

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In this Japanese name, the family name is "Kurimoto".

Kurimoto Masayoshi (栗本昌蔵, 1756 – 1834) was a Japanese naturalist, zoologist and entomologist.

He was physician to the 11th Tokugawa shogun 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.

References

Ueno Masuzo (year?) Japanese entomology in the first half of the nineteenth century Japanese journal of entomology Vol.27, No.1(19590315) pp. 4-9 The Entomological Society of Japan ISSN:09155805

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Name	Kurimoto Masayoshi
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Short description	Japanese entomologist
Date of birth	1756
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Date of death	1834
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