Mogami_Tokunai Knowpia

Mogami Tokunai
Mogami Tokunai
	Mogami Tokunai in 1826
Born	1755; Dewa Province
Died	1836 (aged 80–81)

Mogami Tokunai (最上徳内, c. 1755 – October 14, 1836) was a Japanese samurai, geographer and explorer.

Mogami was born in Dewa Province in what 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 edit

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]

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 edit

^ ^a ^b Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric (2002). "Mogami Tokunai". Japan Encyclopedia. Translated by Käthe Roth. Harvard University Press. p. 654. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
^ WorldCat Identities: 最上德內1754 or 5-1836

References edit

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