Tanaka Yoshio
Tanaka Yoshio | |
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田中芳男 | |
Born | Tanaka Yoshisuke September 27, 1838 Iida, Nagano, Japan |
Died | June 22, 1916 | (aged 77)
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation(s) | Civil servant, naturalist |
Notable work | Yuyo Shokubutsu Zusetsu ("Illustrated Book of Useful Plants"), 1891 Dai Nihon Noshi ("Agriculture in Greater Japan"), 1891 |
Tanaka Yoshio (田中 芳男, September 27, 1838 – June 22, 1916) was a Japanese civil servant and naturalist.
Born to a doctor of
After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese Civil Service was reorganised. Within the Daigaku (later the Ministry of Education) Tanaka joined the Bureau of Local Products, and then moved to the Museums Bureau in 1871.[2] A decade later, his services were sought by the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce to oversee the menagerie attached to the National Museum of Natural History; Tanaka took advantage of the opportunity to create Ueno Zoo. Opened in 1882, it was Japan's first zoological park. The creation of the zoo resulted in Tanaka's promotion to Director-General of the Natural History Bureau, however he received little ministerial support for his botanical and zoological planning and resigned from the post the following year.[3]
In 1878 he helped to set up a school of agriculture in
In 1890 he was elevated to the House of Peers and in 1915 he was granted the title of danshaku (baron).[2][4]
Tanaka died in 1916.
The standard author abbreviation Yo.Tanaka is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]
References
- JSTOR 2383175.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-60606-059-9.
- ISBN 978-0-230-11744-0.
- ^ "Tanaka, Yoshio". Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures. National Diet Library of Japan. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-8240-7240-7.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Yo.Tanaka.