was a Japanese
botanist
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and
educationalist
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(1867 - 1935).
He is the author of important studies about
seaweed
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s. He's also well known for his educational books collection, the ''Ohraimono''.
Okamura is the editor of two
exsiccatae, namely ''An Album of Japanese Bryophyta'' and ''Algae Japonicae exsiccatae''.
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References
Short biography
1867 births
1935 deaths
20th-century Japanese botanists
19th-century Japanese botanists
Japanese phycologists
Scientists from Tokyo
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