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### Author
Tanaka, Yoshio (1838-1916), Japanese botanist and entomologist; member of the Japanese Diet and House of Peers (1890); director of the Japan Forestry Association; secretary to the departments of Agriculture and Commerce and Home affairs.
**Abbreviated name**: *Y. Tanaka* \[standard form in IPNI: *Yo.Tanaka*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 573; Barnhart 3: 359; Bossert p. 393; GR p. 595; Hortus 3: 1205; MW p. 490; NI 1934; Rehder 3: 91; Tucker 1: 678, 712, 2: xxxvii, 3: 303; Zander ed. 10, p. 723, ed. 11, p. 825.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Japan biogr. encycl. who's who ed. 3: 1651. 1964; Kontyû 35 (suppl.): 51-52. 1967.
- Huzimoto, H. et al., Science education in Japan 45. 1937.
- Ishikawa, Y., Who's who in Japan ed. 5. 735. s.d.
- Kurita, S., Who's who in Japan 952. s.d.
#### Eponymy
*Tanakaea* Franchet et Savatier (1878).
### Publications
##### n.13.702. contents and indices to useful plants of Japan
**Title**
Yuyo shokubutsu zusetsu mokuroku oyobi sakuin: or *contents and indices to useful plants of Japan* described and illustrated. Tokyo (Qai Nippon Nokai) 1891.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1891, p. \[i\], \[1\]-108, \[1\]-40, \[1\]-35. *Copies*: HH, NY. 1896, p. \[i\], \[1\]-108, \[1\]-38, \[1\]-29. *Copy*: HH.
1902, p. \[i\], \[1\]-108, \[1\]-38, \[1\]-29. *Copy*: HH.
##### n.13.703. Useful plants of Japan
**Title**
*Useful plants of Japan*, described and illustrated. Tokyo (Agricultural Society of Japan...) 1895.
**Abbreviated title**: *Useful pl. Japan*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1895, p. \[i\], \[1\]-223. *Copies*: HH, NY.