Ishikawa Chiyomatsu | |
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| Born | January 30, 1861 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | January 17, 1935 (aged 73) |
| Other names | 石川 千代松 |
| Occupation(s) | biologist, zoologist |
| Children | Son: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.
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 1972, 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 1978, 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.
