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Yoichirō Hirase
was a Japanese malacologist, malacologist and business man. His son, Shintarō Hirase, (1884–1939) was also a malacologist. The majority of Shintarō Hirase#Collection, his collection of molluscs were destroyed during World War II.William J. Clench, Clench W. J. (1948). "The Hirase collections of mollusks". ''The Nautilus (journal), The Nautilus'' 62(1)3435. Yoichirō greatly contributed to the start of malacology in Japan and was responsible for the collection and indirectly the naming of many land and marine mollusks. Revered by malacologists throughout the world for his enthusiasm and contributions to malacology, he has numerous species named after him. Yoichirō lived from 1859 until 1925. He was a wealthy Kyoto, Kyōto dealer in poultry, seeds, and aviculture products who had founded a side business trading in marine and land shells.Yoichirō Hirase# ftn1, [1] He began to collect shells in 1898 at age 39. Over the next 20 years, his collection grew to about 3,000 Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Ehrmann
Hermann Felix Paul Ehrmann (21 December 1868 – 6 October 1937) was a German entomologist and malacologist. He worked as a teacher and contributed to the systematics and distribution of molluscs in central Europe. Life and work Ehrmann was born in Leipzig where his father Theodor was a mechanic. He taught at a school for the deaf and dumb from 1888 for 12 years and then at a Gaudig girls' school in Leipzig from 1901. Here he won an award for his teaching. He also took an interest in zoology and attended the lectures of Rudolf Leuckart at the Leipzig University, University of Leipzig. For some time he worked on the diatom collections made by the Valdivia Expedition in 1899. Along with Heinrich Simroth who guided him from the age of fourteen they began to examine the systematics of molluscs. He co-edited a volume in the series ''Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas'', ''Mollusken Mitteleuropas'' (1933) dealing with the molluscs, particularly in the families Clausiliidae, Pupillidae, and Acm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1859 Births
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Japanese Naturalists
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hirase (written: 平瀬) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese professional golfer *, Japanese botanist *, Japanese malacologist *, Japanese former footballer *, Japanese malacologist {{surname, Hirase Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoichirō Hirase
was a Japanese malacologist, malacologist and business man. His son, Shintarō Hirase, (1884–1939) was also a malacologist. The majority of Shintarō Hirase#Collection, his collection of molluscs were destroyed during World War II.William J. Clench, Clench W. J. (1948). "The Hirase collections of mollusks". ''The Nautilus (journal), The Nautilus'' 62(1)3435. Yoichirō greatly contributed to the start of malacology in Japan and was responsible for the collection and indirectly the naming of many land and marine mollusks. Revered by malacologists throughout the world for his enthusiasm and contributions to malacology, he has numerous species named after him. Yoichirō lived from 1859 until 1925. He was a wealthy Kyoto, Kyōto dealer in poultry, seeds, and aviculture products who had founded a side business trading in marine and land shells.Yoichirō Hirase# ftn1, [1] He began to collect shells in 1898 at age 39. Over the next 20 years, his collection grew to about 3,000 Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto
Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the List of cities in Japan, ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin, Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe. Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan, having been chosen in 794 as the new seat of Japan's imperial court by Emperor Kanmu. The original city, named Heian-kyō, was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang. The emperors of Japan ruled fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
