Takasi Yamazaki

{{short description|Japanese botanist (1921–2007)}}

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Takasi Yamazaki (Japanese: 山崎敬) (6 January 1921–2 February 2007) was a Japanese botanist and taxonomist.[https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110006379766 『山崎敬(1921-2007年)先生の逝去を悼む』大場秀章 『分類』 : bunrui : 日本植物分類学会誌 7(2), 89-92, 2007-08-20] "Mourning the death of Professor Takasi Yamazaki (1921-2007)"

He was born in Odawara and grew up in Yokohama. After graduating from the former Niigata High School, he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1944 and studied Plant taxonomy of since his research in the laboratory of Shoji Honda. Beginning in 1954, he taught at the University of Tokyo, and in 1972, he became been a professor at the Botanical Garden attached to the University of Tokyo. In the 1960s, he participated in a field survey in Bhutan and an academic survey of the Ogasawara Islands. He studied the taxa Scrophulariaceae and Ericaceae.

From 1987 to 1988, he was the chairman of the Japanese Society of Plant Taxonomy.

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