| Mogami Tokunai | |
|---|---|
 Mogami Tokunai in 1826 | |
| Born | 1755 (1755) Dewa Province |
| Died | 1836(1836-00-00) (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).
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. 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.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.- 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
- ^ 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
- 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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