Kurimoto Masayoshi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese entomologist
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Place of Birth: KonyachĹŤ, Tokyo, Japan
About Kurimoto Masayoshi
- Kurimoto Masayoshi (?? ??, August 22, 1756 – May 3, 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.
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