Iinuma Yokusai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Iinuma Yokusai

botanist and physician (1782-1865)

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1782

Place of Birth: Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 27-Jun-1865

Profession: physician, botanist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Iinuma Yokusai (?? ??, 1782–1865) was a Japanese botanist and physician. 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.