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Tanaka, Tyôzaburô (1885-1976)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Tyôzaburô
Last name
Tanaka
Initials
T.
Life Dates
1885 -
Collecting Dates
1922 - 1934
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
TAI (main), A, B, BM, BR, C, E, F, G, GB, L, LA, LD, LE, M, MICH, MO, NY, P, PH, S, TUS, US, W
Countries
Chinese region: Taiwan, China, SingaporeMalesian region: Philippines, Malaysia, IndonesiaJapanese region: JapanIndian region: IndiaIndo-China: Vietnam
Associate(s)
Shimada, Yaichi (1884-1971) (co-collector)
Biography
Japanese botanist, mycologist and citrus specialist. Tanaka was born in Osaka to a wealthy family (his father founded Kobe Bank). He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1910 and was later awarded the degree of Doctor of Agriculture in 1932. After periods spent at Ueda Sericultural College (1912), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1915), Kyushu Imperial University (1923) and Miyahazi Agricultural College (1925) he moved to Taiwan, where he served as Professor of Horticulture and Applied Botany at Taihoku Imperial University from 1929-1944. At the time, the university (later the National University of Taiwan) was one of the most prestigious centres for the study of natural resources in Southeast Asia. In 1945, with the restoration of Taiwan to China, Tanaka was forced to return to Japan.
Tanaka visited Java in 1923 and 1944 and the Philippines in 1938, and during his lifetime made extensive studies of citrus across Asia. Between about 1918 and the end of the 1930s he authored some 180 botanical names in the citrus family Rutaceae. He is now considered a taxonomic 'splitter', with many of his classifications not supported by modern genetic research. Among the works he authored were a Census of Hainan Plants (1938), Tanaka's Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World (1976) and Species Problem in Citrus (1954). He also published a series in Mycologia between 1909 and 1922 on new Japanese fungi.
Tanaka was director of the library at Taihoku University from 1929-1934 and the library still holds a large and valuable collection of botanical books purchased by Tanaka in the 1930s with his substantial inheritance. His personal collection, left at the university when he returned to Japan, also contains valuable antiques.
Sources:
J.E. Borao, 1998, in Catalog of the Tanaka Collection at National Taiwan University Library: 32, 37-38
M.J. van Steenis Kruseman, "Cyclopedia of Collectors", Flora Malesiana, online edn:
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FMCollectors/T/TanakaT.htm.
Tanaka visited Java in 1923 and 1944 and the Philippines in 1938, and during his lifetime made extensive studies of citrus across Asia. Between about 1918 and the end of the 1930s he authored some 180 botanical names in the citrus family Rutaceae. He is now considered a taxonomic 'splitter', with many of his classifications not supported by modern genetic research. Among the works he authored were a Census of Hainan Plants (1938), Tanaka's Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World (1976) and Species Problem in Citrus (1954). He also published a series in Mycologia between 1909 and 1922 on new Japanese fungi.
Tanaka was director of the library at Taihoku University from 1929-1934 and the library still holds a large and valuable collection of botanical books purchased by Tanaka in the 1930s with his substantial inheritance. His personal collection, left at the university when he returned to Japan, also contains valuable antiques.
Sources:
J.E. Borao, 1998, in Catalog of the Tanaka Collection at National Taiwan University Library: 32, 37-38
M.J. van Steenis Kruseman, "Cyclopedia of Collectors", Flora Malesiana, online edn:
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FMCollectors/T/TanakaT.htm.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 632; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 872; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 991;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Tyôzaburô
Last name
Tanaka
Initials
T.
Life Dates
1885 -
Collecting Dates
1922 - 1934
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
TAI (main), A, B, BM, BR, C, E, F, G, GB, L, LA, LD, LE, M, MICH, MO, NY, P, PH, S, TUS, US, W
Countries
Chinese region: Taiwan, China, SingaporeMalesian region: Philippines, Malaysia, IndonesiaJapanese region: JapanIndian region: IndiaIndo-China: Vietnam
Associate(s)
Shimada, Yaichi (1884-1971) (co-collector)
Biography
Japanese botanist, mycologist and citrus specialist. Tanaka was born in Osaka to a wealthy family (his father founded Kobe Bank). He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1910 and was later awarded the degree of Doctor of Agriculture in 1932. After periods spent at Ueda Sericultural College (1912), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1915), Kyushu Imperial University (1923) and Miyahazi Agricultural College (1925) he moved to Taiwan, where he served as Professor of Horticulture and Applied Botany at Taihoku Imperial University from 1929-1944. At the time, the university (later the National University of Taiwan) was one of the most prestigious centres for the study of natural resources in Southeast Asia. In 1945, with the restoration of Taiwan to China, Tanaka was forced to return to Japan.
Tanaka visited Java in 1923 and 1944 and the Philippines in 1938, and during his lifetime made extensive studies of citrus across Asia. Between about 1918 and the end of the 1930s he authored some 180 botanical names in the citrus family Rutaceae. He is now considered a taxonomic 'splitter', with many of his classifications not supported by modern genetic research. Among the works he authored were a Census of Hainan Plants (1938), Tanaka's Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World (1976) and Species Problem in Citrus (1954). He also published a series in Mycologia between 1909 and 1922 on new Japanese fungi.
Tanaka was director of the library at Taihoku University from 1929-1934 and the library still holds a large and valuable collection of botanical books purchased by Tanaka in the 1930s with his substantial inheritance. His personal collection, left at the university when he returned to Japan, also contains valuable antiques.
Sources:
J.E. Borao, 1998, in Catalog of the Tanaka Collection at National Taiwan University Library: 32, 37-38
M.J. van Steenis Kruseman, "Cyclopedia of Collectors", Flora Malesiana, online edn:
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FMCollectors/T/TanakaT.htm.
Tanaka visited Java in 1923 and 1944 and the Philippines in 1938, and during his lifetime made extensive studies of citrus across Asia. Between about 1918 and the end of the 1930s he authored some 180 botanical names in the citrus family Rutaceae. He is now considered a taxonomic 'splitter', with many of his classifications not supported by modern genetic research. Among the works he authored were a Census of Hainan Plants (1938), Tanaka's Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World (1976) and Species Problem in Citrus (1954). He also published a series in Mycologia between 1909 and 1922 on new Japanese fungi.
Tanaka was director of the library at Taihoku University from 1929-1934 and the library still holds a large and valuable collection of botanical books purchased by Tanaka in the 1930s with his substantial inheritance. His personal collection, left at the university when he returned to Japan, also contains valuable antiques.
Sources:
J.E. Borao, 1998, in Catalog of the Tanaka Collection at National Taiwan University Library: 32, 37-38
M.J. van Steenis Kruseman, "Cyclopedia of Collectors", Flora Malesiana, online edn:
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FMCollectors/T/TanakaT.htm.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 632; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 872; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 991;
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