was a Japanese naturalist,

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and d ...

and entomologist. He was physician to the 11th Tokugawa shōgun

Tokugawa Ienari Tokugawa Ienari ( ja, 徳川家斉, November 18, 1773 – March 22, 1841) was the eleventh and longest-serving ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan who held office from 1787 to 1837.Hall, John Whitney ''et al.'' (1991) ''Early Modern J ...

Kurimoto Masayoshi lectured on Materia Medica. In 1811 he wrote ''Kurimoto’s Iconographia Insectorum'' which records 500 Japanese insects. In 1826 he met

Philipp Franz von Siebold Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (17 February 1796 – 18 October 1866) was a German physician, botanist and traveler. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna and the introduction of Western medicine in Japan. He w ...

and they worked together. Kurimoto Masayoshi gave him drawings of Crustacea. One of these Squilla maculata a Mantis shrimp was used by

Wilhem de Haan Wilhem de Haan (7 February 1801 in Amsterdam – 15 April 1855 in Leiden) was a Dutch zoologist. He specialised in the study of insects and crustaceans, and was the first keeper of invertebrates at the Rijksmuseum in Leiden, now Naturalis. He was ...

in Siebold's '' Fauna Japonica''.

References

*Ueno Masuzo (year?) Japanese entomology in the first half of the nineteenth century ''Japanese journal of entomology'' *Vol.27, No.1(19590315) pp. 4–9 The Entomological Society of Japan * Kaikarui Shashin (pictures of crustaceans) at Leiden University Librarie
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* Gyorui shasin (pictures of fish) at Leiden University Librarie
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Japanese entomologists 1756 births 1834 deaths {{entomologist-stub