Kurimoto Masayoshi

Kurimoto Masayoshi (栗本 昌臧; August 22, 1756 – May 3, 1834) was a Japanese physician, naturalist, zoologist and entomologist.

He was physician to the 11th Tokugawa shōgun, Tokugawa Ienari, and lectured on materia medica. In 1811 he compiled 3-volume work entitled "Senchu-fû", roughly translated is "Thousand Insects Manuscript", which is an illustrated book of detailed insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and invertebrates known in Japan.

In 1826 Kurimoto met Philipp Franz von Siebold and they worked together. Kurimoto supplied Siebold drawings of crustaceans, including an illustration of Squilla maculata (a Mantis shrimp), which was used by Wilhem de Haan in "Fauna Japonica".

References

• Ueno Masuzo (year?) Japanese entomology in the first half of the nineteenth century Japanese journal of entomology
• Vol.27, No.1(19590315) pp. 4–9 The Entomological Society of Japan ISSN 0915-5805

• Kaikarui Shashin (pictures of crustaceans) at Leiden University Libraries See catalogue
• Gyorui shasin (pictures of fish) at Leiden University Libraries See catalogue

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