Tomitaro makino biography books
Makino shokubutsugaku zenshū (Makino's Book of Botany) Sōsakuin, · Makino shin Nihon shokubutsu zukan (Makino's New Illustrated Flora of.
Primary Sources, Historical Collections: Observations on the Flora of Japan., With a Foreword by T. S. Wentworth..
Tomitaro Makino
Japanese botanist ()
Tomitaro Makino (牧野 富太郎, Makino Tomitarō, April 24, &#; January 18, ) was a pioneer Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work.
He has been called "Father of Japanese Botany",[1] having been one of the first Japanese botanists to work extensively on classifying Japanese plants using the system developed by Linnaeus. His research resulted in documenting 50, specimens, many of which are represented in his Makino's Illustrated Flora of Japan.
Despite having dropped out of grammar school, he eventually attained a Doctor of Science degree, and his birthday is remembered as Botany Day in Japan.
This book is a biography of Dr. Tomitaro Makino, known as the “Father of Japanese Botany”.Early life
Tomitaro Makino was born in Sakawa, Kōchi to a prestigious sake brewer. His parents died during his early childhood, and he was raised mainly by his grandmother. Though he dropped out of school after two years, he cultivated a strong interest in English, geography, and especially botany.
In , he became a teacher at the
