is a Japanese

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

and retired professor from Azabu University. A native of Tokyo, he graduated from Tokyo University in 1937 in veterinary medicine. He worked at Ueno Zoo. In 1958 he obtained his doctorate in science from Hokkaido University, on research in "A Comparative Study of chromosomes in birds". Later he became the Section Chief for Birds and Wild Animals at the Experimental Forestry Station for the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. In 1959 he was awarded the Ornithological Society of Japan Award and published various academic papers in the OSJ journal and other academic journals.
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*''The God of Practical Jokes'' (1956) *''Handbook on the colours of wild birds'' (1957) *''Enjoyable methods for raising birds'' (1958) *''The crows story'' (1975; part of the Elementary Schools Natural Science Series of books)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Utagawa, Tatso 1917 births 2006 deaths Academic staff of Azabu University Japanese ornithologists Japanese mammalogists 20th-century Japanese zoologists

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