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Ninzo Matsumura


Ninzo Matsumura (松村 任三 Matsumura Ninzō?, February 14, 1856 – May 4, 1928) was a Japanese botanist, born in Ibaraki Prefecture, of a samurai family. He took a great interest in botany as a young man and after he was 30 studied in Würzburg and Heidelberg (1886–1888). In 1883 he had been made assistant professor of botany in the University of Tokyo, and in 1890 became professor and in 1897 director of the Botanical Gardens. He assisted in the preparation of Brinkley's Unabridged Japanese-English Dictionary (1896), and he published many important works on the flora of Japan, including:


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