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Minakata Kumagusu (南方 熊楠, May 18, 1867 – December 29, 1941) was a Japanese author, biologist, naturalist and ethnologist . Biography. Minakata was born in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. In 1883, he moved to Tokyo, where he entered the preparatory school Kyōryū Gakkō.
Mar 14, 2023 · During this period in the United States, the ideas of civilization theory, informed by the very antithesis of the Meiji state’s understanding, surfaced in the life and work of the aspiring young naturalist-botanist Minakata Kumagusu.
May 24, 2020 · In this short article, I attempt to examine the environmental philosophy and activity of a Japanese intellectual giant, Minakata Kumagusu (1867–1941). In Japan, he is called by the first name, Kuma...
Oct 16, 2017 · Minakata Kumagusu was a polymath whose brilliant, probing mind knew no boundaries. As Japan marks Minakata’s 150th birthday with symposiums and new publications, Nakazawa Shin’ichi, a polymath...
Nov 1, 2023 · The Japanese biologist and ethnologist Minakata Kumagusu has achieved a degree of celebrity in Japan for being the first Asian contributor to the British scientific magazine Nature.
May 4, 2022 · UNTIL THE LATE 1980s the name of Minakata Kumagusu was scarcely known in Japan. His collected works in twelve volumes had always attracted admirers, enthusiasts for the extraordinary erudition displayed there for natural history, folklore, classical learning in a dozen languages, and for the odd, unorthodox passion for human knowledge which had ...
Jan 1, 2008 · Roger Pulvers. The scientific term Minakatella longifolia G. Lister may be known only to biologists, but behind the story of this slime mold—and of how specimens came to be kept at the Natural History Museum in London—is the life of one of the most fascinating men of Japan’s modern era: Minakata Kumagusu. Minakata (right) in Port Saishu.
In January 1887, the 20-year-old aspiring naturalist-botanist Minakata Kumagusu ( 南方熊楠, 1867–1941) arrived at the port of San Francisco, inspired to investigate the knowledge required to become ‘civilized’ (Figure 1).3 The Japanese needed to sur-vive the inevitable changes in civilizational progress by learning from the West.4 As Kumagusu came f...
Mar 11, 2020 · The outstanding and renowned naturalist, Minakata Kumagusu, was fascinated by slime molds. These entities move about freely in moist conditions while changing their shape like amoebas, propagating themselves in dry conditions by releasing countless spores while retaining their mushroom-like shape.
Jan 28, 2018 · Jan 28, 2018. In an old black-and-white photograph on show at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Minakata Kumagusu — with a shaved head and dressed only in a waistcloth — stands by...
