Kurimoto Masayoshi

In this Japanese name, the surname is Kurimoto.

Kurimoto Masayoshi
Born	September 10, 1921 Kyoto, Japan
Died	November 22, 2003 Kyoto, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Kyoto University
Known for	Studying bird life in Japan and East Asia

Kurimoto Masayoshi (栗本 昌臧, August 22, 1756 – May 3, 1834) was a Japanese naturalist, zoologist and entomologist.

He was physician to the 11th Tokugawa shōgun Tokugawa Ienari Kurimoto Masayoshi lectured on Materia Medica. In 1811 he wrote Kurimoto’s Iconographia Insectorum which records 500 Japanese insects. In 1826 he met Philipp Franz von Siebold and they worked together. Kurimoto Masayoshi gave him drawings of Crustacea. One of these Squilla maculata a Mantis shrimp was used by Wilhem de Haan in Siebold's Fauna Japonica.

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 0915-5805

• Kaikarui Shashin (pictures of crustaceans) at Leiden University Libraries See catalogue
• Gyorui shasin (pictures of fish) at Leiden University Libraries See catalogue