was a Japanese
entomologist who specialised in
Lepidoptera.
He wrote ''Butterflies of
Formosa in Colour'' Osaka, Hoikusha (1960), ''Early Stages of Japanese Butterflies in Colour'' Hoikusha (with Akira Hara, 1960) and ''Butterflies of Japan Illustrated in Colour'' Tokyo, Hokuryu-kan (1964) all of which took advantage of Japanese advanced (
optical
Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultravio ...
) and
colour printing
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or monochrome printing). Any natural scene or color photograph can be optically and physiologically dissected into three ...
technologies.
He also published many scientific papers describing new species of butterflies.
Dr. Takashi Shirozu was a
professor emeritus
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of
Kyushu University
, abbreviated to , is a Japanese national university located in Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu.
It was the 4th Imperial University in Japan, ranked as 4th in 2020 Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings, one of the top 10 Design ...
and president emeritus of The Lepidopterological Society of Japan.
References
*2004
Obituary Takashi Shirôzu (1917-2004). ''Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan'' 55(3) 133, including a portrait.
Japanese lepidopterists
Japanese entomologists
1917 births
2004 deaths
Academic staff of Kyushu University
University of Miyazaki alumni
20th-century Japanese zoologists
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