About Mogami Tokunai
Lived 1755 – 1836 (aged 80–81). Mogami Tokunai was a Japanese explorer, geographer and painter.
was a Japanese samurai, geographer and explorer.
Mogami was born in Dewa Province in what is now part of Yamagata Prefecture).
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.
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)
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Who was Mogami Tokunai?
daimyo (1755-1836)
When was Mogami Tokunai born?
Mogami Tokunai was born in 1755 in Tateoka.
When did Mogami Tokunai die?
Mogami Tokunai died on 14 October 1836 in Asakusa.
What was Mogami Tokunai's occupation?
Mogami Tokunai was an explorer, geographer and painter.
What nationality was Mogami Tokunai?
Mogami Tokunai was Japanese.
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