Children Udagawa Kōsai | Grandchild Junʼichi Udagawa | |
Died 27 June 1865, Nagamatsumura People also search for Udagawa Kōsai, Udagawa Yōan, Junʼichi Udagawa, Yojiro Kimura | ||
Yokusai Iinuma (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.
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