Kintarô Okamura

{{short description|Japanese botanist}}

{{nihongo|Kintaro Okamura|岡村 金太郎|Okamura Kintarō|extra=May 5, 1867 - August 21, 1935}} was a Japanese botanist and educationalist (1867 - 1935).

He is the author of important studies about seaweeds. He's also well known for his educational books collection, the Ohraimono.

Okamura is the editor of two exsiccatae, namely An Album of Japanese Bryophyta and Algae Japonicae exsiccatae.{{cite web |title=An Album of Japanese Bryophyta: IndExs ExsiccataID=380896768 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=380896768 |access-date=28 August 2024}}{{cite web |title=Algae Japonicae exsiccatae: IndExs ExsiccataID=154600832 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=154600832 |access-date=28 August 2024}}

{{botanist|Okamura|Okamura, Kintaro}}

Bibliography

  • {{cite book|title=Nihon kaisō zusetsu|language=ja|oclc=83442798|publisher=Kintarō Okamura|year=1900}}
  • {{cite book|title=Illustrations of the Marine Algae of Japan|url=https://archive.org/details/nihonkaisozusets00okam|oclc=68692846|publisher=Keigyosha|year=1900}}
  • {{cite book|title=Nihon sōrui meii|language=ja|oclc=15660662|location=Tōkyō|publisher=Keigyōsha|year=1902}}
  • {{cite book|title=Icones of Japanese algae |language=en, ja|oclc=6269718 |publisher= Okamura Kintarō|year=1907}} - published between 1907 and 1937, Japanese text with English summary. Total 10 volumes were bound to seven. Reprint in 2016.
  • {{cite book|title=Nihon sorui zufu = Icones of Japanese algae|language=ja|oclc=14771095 |publisher=Kazama Shobō|year=1952}}
  • {{cite journal|title=Some littoral diatoms of Japan|journal=Report of the Imperial Fisheries Institute|location=Tokyo|volume=3|number=4|oclc=38025846|year=1911}}
  • {{cite book|title=Ōraimono bunrui mokuroku|language=ja|edition=2 |location=Tōkyō|publisher=Keimeikai Jimusho|year=1925}}
  • {{cite book|title=The distribution of marine algae in Pacific waters|year=1932}}
  • {{cite journal|title=On Gelidium and Pterocladia of Japan|journal=Journal of the Imperial Fisheries Institute|volume=29|number=2|publisher=Imperial Fisheries Institute|year=1934}}
  • {{cite book|title=Nihon sōrui zufu|oclc=49223818|language=ja, en|year=1942}}
  • {{cite book|title=Nihon kaisō shi |language=ja|location=Tōkyō|publisher=Uchida Rōkakuho|year= 1956|oclc=33647844}}
  • {{cite book|title=Kaisō fu|language=ja |location=Tōkyō |publisher=Tōkyō Shobō|year=1984}}

References

  • [http://www.yushodo.co.jp/english/mic_list/bunrui1.html Short biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041204232255/http://yushodo.co.jp/english/mic_list/bunrui1.html |date=2004-12-04 }}

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Category:1867 births

Category:1935 deaths

Category:20th-century Japanese botanists

Category:19th-century Japanese botanists

Category:Japanese phycologists

Category:Scientists from Tokyo

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