Tags: Entomologist.
Kurimoto Masayoshi (栗本 昌蔵 1756 – 1834) was a Japanese naturalist zoologist and entomologist.He was physician to the 11th Tokugawa shogun 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.