Mogami Tokunai

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Mogami Tokunai, 72 years old

Mogami Tokunai (最上 徳内, 1755? - October 14, 1836) was a Japanese samurai, geographer and explorer.

Mogami was born in Dewa Province which is now part of Yamagata Prefecture).[1]

He explored and mapped Hokkaido and Sakhalin and some of the Kuril Islands in 1785-1786. In his reports to the Tokugawa shogunate,he emphasized the need to defend the islands.[1] He compiled a preliminary Ainu-Japanese dictionary in ``Ezo Soshi".

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Mogami Tokunai, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 20+ works in 40+ publications in 3 languages and 130+ library holdings.[2]

  • 蝦夷草紙 (1790)
  • 蝦夷國風俗人情之沙汰 (1791)
  • 蝦夷方言藻汐草 (1804)
  • 度量衡統 (1804)

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Mogami Tokunai" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 1014, p. 1014, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
  2. WorldCat Identities: 最上德內1754 or 5-1836

References

External links

Ezo Soshi

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