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Iwasaki Tsunemasa
Iwasaki
Tsunemasa
also
Kan-en
was a Japanese
botanist
,
zoologist
and
entomologist
. He was also a
samurai
in
the service
of the
Tokugawa shogunate
.
He wrote:
Bukō-sanbutsu-shi
a
work
on the
natural history
of the
Edo
district
including
botany
zoology
and entomology as
lists
.
Honzō Zufu
a
woodblock
illustrated
work.
Plants
only.
Honzō Sen'yō
. Unpublished. Two volumes includes
insects
and gives some
Dutch names
.Some
editions
include the
Binomial nomenclature
introduced by
Carl Linnaeus
in
1758
.
Sōmoku-sodategusa
. Two volumes of woodcut
illustrations
.Includes
13
Ukiyo-e
of insects which cause
plant
damage
.One was
Papilio xuthus
which
fed
on fragrant
citrus
.He described the
larva
with its
osmeterium
.