Iwasaki Tsunemasa

Iwasaki Tsunemasa , also Kan-en (1786 , Edo - 1842) was a Japanese botanist , zoologist and entomologist

Iwasaki Tsunemasa was a samurai in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate.

He wrote

*"Bukô-sanbutsi-shi" a work on the natural history of the Edo district including botany zoology and entomology as lists.

*"Honzô Zufu" (Iconographia Plantarum or Diagrams and Chronicles of Botany) a woodblock illustrated work (1828, 1884 , 1920 , 1921 in 93 volumes).Plants only.

*"Honzô Senyô" (Essentials to the study of plants and animals). Unpublished .Two volumes includes insects and gives some Dutch names.Some editions include the Binomial nomenclature introduced by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.

*"Sômoka-sodategusta" (Cultivation of Flowering Plants). Two volumes of woodcut illustrations (1818).Includes 13 Ukiyo-e of insects which cause plant damage.One was "Papilio xuthus" which fed on fragrant citrus.He described the larva with it’s osmeterium.

References

Ueno Masuzo (year?) Japanese entomology in the first half of the nineteenth century "Japanese journal of entomology"Vol.27, No.1(19590315) pp. 4-9 The Entomological Society of Japan ISSN:09155805