Mogami Tokunai

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Mogami".

Mogami Tokunai (最上 徳内^?, 1755 - October 14, 1836) was a Japanese samurai, geographer and explorer.

Tokunai was born in Dewa Province which is now part of Yamagata Prefecture).^[1]

He explored and mapped Hokkaido and Sakhalin and some of the Kuril Islands in 1785-1786. In his reports to the Tokugawa shogunate,he emphasized the need to defend the islands.^[1]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Mogami Tokunai, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 20+ works in 40+ publications in 3 languages and 130+ library holdings.^[2]

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

• 蝦夷草紙 (1790)
• 蝦夷國風俗人情之沙汰 (1791)
• 蝦夷方言藻汐草 (1804)
• 度量衡統 (1804)

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Mogami Tokunai" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 1014 at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
2. ^ WorldCat Identities: 最上德內1754 or 5-1836

References

• 最上徳内 150年祭実行委員会 (Mogami Tokunai Sesquicentennial Committee). (1987). 最上徳内の遺徳を偲ぶ: 百五十年祭記念誌 (Mogami Tokunai no itoku o shinobu: hyaku-gojūnensai kinenshi. OCLC 022705749
• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

Persondata
Name	Mogami, Tokunai
Alternative names
Short description	Daimyo
Date of birth	1755
Place of birth
Date of death	1836
Place of death

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