Kurimoto Masayoshi | |
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| 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.