About Iinuma Yokusai
Lived 1782 – 1865 (aged 82). Iinuma Yokusai was a Japanese physician and botanist.
was a Japanese botanist and medical doctor.
Iinuma studied botany under Ono Ranzan. He spoke Dutch and was a practitioner of Western medicine. In 1856 he published the Somoku-zusetsu, the first botanical encyclopedia in Japan to use Linnaean taxonomy. The strawberry species Fragaria iinumae is named after him.
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Who was Iinuma Yokusai?
botanist and physician (1782-1865)
When was Iinuma Yokusai born?
Iinuma Yokusai was born on 19 July 1782 in Kameyama.
When did Iinuma Yokusai die?
Iinuma Yokusai died on 27 June 1865 in Nagamatsu.
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Iinuma Yokusai was a physician and botanist.
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Iinuma Yokusai was Japanese.
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