Mogami Tokunai

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

Mogami Tokunai
Mogami Tokunai, 72 years old
Born1755 (1755)
Died1836 (1837) (aged 81)
OccupationDaimyō
In this Japanese name, the surname is Mogami.

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. 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 Archived 2012-05-24 at Archive.today.
  2. 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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