Mogami Tokunai

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

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]

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

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

↑ 1.0 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.
↑ WorldCat Identities: 最上德內1754 or 5-1836

References

最上徳内 150年祭実行委員会 (Mogami Tokunai Sesquicentennial Committee). (1987). 最上徳内の遺徳を偲ぶ: 百五十年祭記念誌 (Mogami Tokunai no itoku o shinobu: hyaku-gojūnensai kinenshi. OCLC 022705749
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

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Ezo Soshi

Persondata
Name	Mogami Tokunai
Alternative names
Short description	Daimyo
Date of birth	1755
Place of birth
Date of death	1836
Place of death

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