was a Japanese botanist who worked alongside

Tomitaro Makino 200px, Tomitaro Makino was a pioneer Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work. He has been called "Father of Japanese Botany". He was one of the first Japanese botanists to work extensively on classifying Japanese plants using the system ...

'The Father of Japanese Botany', at the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project b ...

. Shirasawa named numerous native plants, notably the endangered ''

Picea koyamae ''Picea koyamae'' (Koyama's spruce; Japanese: ヤツガタケトウヒ or やつがたけとうひ ''yatsugatake-touhi'') is a rare spruce, endemic to the Akaishi Mountains and Yatsugatake Mountains in central Honshu, Japan. It is an evergreen ...

'' and (with Makino) the Kyūshū Lime '' Tilia kiusiana''.

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Botanists active in Japan 20th-century Japanese botanists 1868 births 1947 deaths Botanists with author abbreviations 19th-century Japanese botanists {{Japan-botanist-stub