Ishikawa Chiyomatsu

Last updated • 1 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Ishikawa Chiyomatsu
Chiyomatsu Ishikawa (2).jpg
Born(1861-01-30)January 30, 1861
Tokyo, Japan
DiedJanuary 17, 1935(1935-01-17) (aged 73)
Other names石川 千代松
Occupation(s) biologist, zoologist
ChildrenSon:Ishikawa Kin'ichi

Ishikawa Chiyomatsu (石川 千代松, January 30, 1861 – January 17, 1935) was a Japanese biologist, zoologist, evolutionary theorist, and ichthyologist at the Naples Zoological Station starting 1887. He was responsible for disseminating Darwin's ideas on evolution in Japan.

Contents

Biography

Ishikawa Chiyomatsu was born in Edo as a son of a high-ranking samurai, a Hatamoto. But the Meiji Restoration occurred and when the Tokugawa shogunate collapsed, he moved to Sunpu (Shizuoka prefecture) in 1867. In 1872, he returned to Tokyo and studied English. He entered the Tokyo Kaisei Gakko, which was a high education college belonging Ministry of Education in 1876. His was taught by Montague Arthur Fenton, which influenced Chiyomatsu to start a collection of butterflies.

Chiyomatsu entered the Tokyo Imperial University in 1878, and studied under Edward S. Morse. After Morse left Japan, his teachers were Charles Otis Whitman and Kakichi Mitsukuri. After graduating from the Tokyo Imperial University, he studied in Germany under eminent evolutionary theorist August Weismann.

He was also the 5th principal of the Dokkyo Middle School in Tokyo.

relatives

See also


Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kaga Province</span> Former province of Japan

Kaga Province was a province of Japan in the area that is today the south and western portion of Ishikawa Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Kaga bordered on Echizen, Etchū, Hida, and Noto Provinces. It was part of Hokurikudō Circuit. Its abbreviated form name was Kashū (加州).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernest Fenollosa</span> American art historian and orientalist

Ernest Francisco Fenollosa was an American art historian of Japanese art, professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial University. An important educator during the modernization of Japan during the Meiji Era, Fenollosa was an enthusiastic Orientalist who did much to preserve traditional Japanese art.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kikuchi Dairoku</span> Japanese mathematician (1855–1917)

Baron Kikuchi Dairoku was a Japanese mathematician, educator, and education administrator during the Meiji era. After earning degrees in mathematics and physics from St John's College at the University of Cambridge, he became one of the first Japanese professors of mathematics at the University of Tokyo. Later in his life, he served as president of the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Gakushuin, and the Riken Institute.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Inagaki Manjirō</span> Japanese diplomat

Inagaki Manjirō was a Japanese diplomat and political theorist who was active during the Meiji period of Japan.

Akira Terao is a Japanese musician, singer and actor. As of 2012, he is the only male actor to have received both the Japan Record Award and the Japan Academy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jun Ishikawa</span> Japanese author, translator and literary critic

Jun Ishikawa was the pen name of a modernist author, translator and literary critic active in Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Ishikawa Kiyoshi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prince Kuni Asahiko</span> Japanese prince (1824–1891)

Asahiko, Prince Kuni was a member of a collateral line of the Japanese imperial family who played a key role in the Meiji Restoration. Prince Asahiko was an adopted son of Emperor Ninkō and later a close advisor to Emperor Kōmei and Emperor Meiji. He was the great-great-grandfather of the present Emperor of Japan, Naruhito.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama</span> Ward in Kantō, Japan

Tsurumi-ku (鶴見区) is one of the 18 ku (wards) of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 270,433 and a density of 8,140 persons per km². The total area is 33.23 km².

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tatsuzō Ishikawa</span> Japanese writer

Tatsuzō Ishikawa was a Japanese writer. He was the first winner of the Akutagawa Prize.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kinichiro Ishikawa</span> Japanese painter

Kinichiro Ishikawa was a Japanese painter. He taught part-time in Taiwan at the University of Taipei and as full-time instructor at the Taiwan Mandarin Institute. He promoted modern western art education in Taiwan and was considered a pioneer of art education. In Taiwan, he initiated the art and culture monthly meeting and the tea party (1913–1916). He came to Taiwan to actively promote watercolor paintings in schools and off-campus, through platforms such as the Taiwan Daily News and Taiwan Times. He published paintings and articles "The Latest Watercolor Painting Method", "Extracurricular Painting Posts", "Mountain Purple Water Ming" and directed the Seven Star Painting Society, the Taiwan Watercolor Painting Society, the Keelung Asian Painting Association, as well as school art workshops and courses for amateurs. In the 1920s Taiwan's painting circles included Lee Shih-chiao, Huang Yibin (黄奕滨), Li Mei-shu, Ni Jianghuai (倪蒋怀), Ran In-ting and Lee Tze-fan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Takamine Hideo</span> Japanese administrator and educator

Takamine Hideo was an administrator and educator in Meiji period Japan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hōjō Tokiyuki (Scouting)</span> Japanese politician

Hōjō Tokiyuki was an educator, mathematician and politician in Meiji period Japan. He was the twelfth head of Gakushūin Peers’ School, and an early Japanese Scouting notable.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mitsukuri Rinsho</span> Japanese politician (1846–1897)

Baron Mitsukuri Rinshō was a Japanese statesman and legal scholar in Meiji period Japan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Terao Tsunefumi</span> Japanese sumo wrestler (1963–2023)

Terao Tsunefumi was a Japanese sumo wrestler. He was born in Tokyo, but brought up in Kajiki, Aira District, Kagoshima, Japan. He fought out of Izutsu stable. The highest rank he reached was sekiwake. Despite his relatively light weight he had an extremely long career, spanning 23 years from 1979 until 2002, and was known as the "iron man" of sumo. After retiring, he was the owner of the Shikoroyama stable until his death in 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maeda Nariyasu</span>

Maeda Nariyasu was an Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 12th daimyō of Kaga Domain in the Hokuriku region of Japan. He was the 13th hereditary lord of the Kanazawa Maeda clan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emperor Meiji</span> Emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912

Mutsuhito, posthumously honored as Emperor Meiji, was the 122nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Reigning from 1867 to his death, he was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan and presided over the Meiji era. His reign is associated with the Meiji Restoration, a series of rapid changes that witnessed Japan's transformation from an isolationist, feudal state to an industrialized world power.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yūki Ishikawa</span> Japanese volleyball player

Yūki Ishikawa is a Japanese male professional volleyball player from Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mikijirō Hira</span> Japanese actor

Mikijirō Hira was a Japanese actor. Starting as a stage actor in the 1950s, he also worked in film and television and was active until the time of his death. From the 1970s he starred in several of Yukio Ninagawa's productions, including an acclaimed role as Macbeth. Described as "Japan's best Shakespearean actor", Hira received several awards throughout his career, including an excellence award at the 2011 National Arts Festival hosted by the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs.

Hiroaki Terao is a Japanese mathematician, known as, with Peter Orlik and Louis Solomon, a pioneer of the theory of arrangements of hyperplanes. He was awarded a Mathematical Society of Japan Algebra Prize in 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hisashi Terao</span>

Hisashi Terao (1855-1923) was a Japanese astronomer and mathematician. He graduated from the Tokyo imperial University as well as from the University of Paris, and he was one of the founding members and the first principal of The Tokyo Academy of Physics. Notable students that studied under him include Shin Hirayama, Hisashi Kimura, and Kiyotsugu Hirayama. He is also called one of the first astronomers of the Meiji era.