Mogami Tokunai
| Mogami Tokunai | |
|---|---|
 Mogami Tokunai, 72 years old | |
| Born | 1755 |
| Died | 1836 (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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- 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 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.
- ↑ 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. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
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