was a Japanese

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

and

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

. Iinuma studied botany under

Ono Ranzan , also known as , was a Japanese botany, botanist and herbalism, herbalist, known as the "Japanese Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus". Ono's real surname was ; his adult given name was . became his art name and his Chinese style courtesy name. He was b ...

. He spoke Dutch and was a practitioner of

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. In 1856 he published the ''Somoku-zusetsu'', the first botanical encyclopedia in Japan to use

Linnaean taxonomy Linnaean taxonomy can mean either of two related concepts: # The particular form of biological classification (taxonomy) set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set forth in his ''Systema Naturae'' (1735) and subsequent works. In the taxonomy of Linnaeus t ...

. The

strawberry The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; ''Fragaria × ananassa'') is a widely grown hybrid species of the genus '' Fragaria'', collectively known as the strawberries, which are cultivated worldwide for their fruit. The fruit is widely ap ...

species ''

Fragaria iinumae ''Fragaria iinumae'' is a species of Fragaria, strawberry native to Japan and eastern Russia. In Japan it was first discovered on and the name was given. All strawberries have a base haploid count of 7 chromosomes. ''Fragaria iinumae'' is dip ...

'' is named after him.

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19th-century Japanese botanists 19th-century Japanese physicians 1782 births 1865 deaths {{Japan-bio-stub