Mogami Tokunai

Mogami Tokunai

Mogami Tokunai, 72 years old

Mogami Tokunai, 72 years old
Born 1755 (1755)
Died 1836 (1837) (aged 81)
Occupation Daimyo
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.

Mogami 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] He compiled a preliminary Ainu-Japanese dictionary in ``Ezo Soshi".

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]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Mogami Tokunai" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 1014, 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

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