
Curator Profile
Name |
Tatsuo KONISHI |
 |
Status |
Director |
Professional Speciality |
Plant breeding. |
Garden Area in charge |
Supervising the whole of areas. |
Hobby |
Mountaineering. |
Home Place |
Tokyo. |
Comment or message |
Collecting traditional useful plants;looking for (a) collaborator(-s)
of the araceous living-plants. |
E-mail adress |
konishi@kahaku.go.jp |
Name |
Hiroaki HATTA |
 |
Status |
Senior Curator. |
Professional Speciality |
Dendrology. Analysis of branching architecture on trees. |
Garden Area in charge |
Central Circle,Promenade,Domestic Useful Plants Section. |
Hobby |
Photography of plants. |
Home Place |
Mie-ken. |
Comment or message |
Contact me,if you hope to study more on trees. |
E-mail adress |
hatta@kahaku.go.jp |
Name |
Ryoji HIRAYAMA |
 |
Status |
Senior Curator. |
Professional Speciality |
Soil genesis & classification. Soil micromorphology. |
Garden Area in charge |
Temperate Coniferous Forest,Warm-Temperate Broad-leaved Deciduous
Forest & Cool-temperate Broad-leaved Deciduous Forest Sections. |
Hobby |
Photography & tennis. |
Home Place |
Asikita-gun,Kumamoto-ken. |
Comment or message |
|
E-mail adress |
hirayama@kahaku.go.jp |
Name |
Sadamu MATSUMOTO |
 |
Status |
Senior Curator. |
Professional Speciality |
Cytotaxonomy of the Pteridophytes. |
Garden Area in charge |
Montane Grassland,Sandy and Gravelly & Rockery Sections. |
Hobby |
|
Home Place |
Shimoda-shi,Shizuoka-ken. |
Comment or message |
A bachelor in Tsukuba. |
E-mail adress |
matumoto@kahaku.go.jp |
Name |
Tsukasa IWASHINA |
 |
Status |
Senior Curator |
Professional Speciality |
Chemotaxonomy of the plants. |
Garden Area in charge |
Savanna House. |
Hobby |
Marathon & climbing mountains. |
Home Place |
Ichinomiya,Yamanashi-ken. |
Comment or message |
|
E-mail adress |
iwashina@kahaku.go.jp |
Name |
Tomohisa YUKAWA |
 |
Status |
Curator. |
Professional Speciality |
Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Orchidaceae. |
Garden Area in charge |
Tropical Rain Forest & Tropical Plant Resources Houses. |
Hobby |
Haiku. |
Home Place |
Hiroshima. |
Comment or message |
Wishing to create a 'real' botanic garden. |
E-mail adress |
yukawa@kahaku.go.jp |
Name |
Goro KOKUBUGATA |
 |
Status |
Curator. |
Professional Speciality |
Molecular cytotaxonomy of the vascular plants. |
Garden Area in charge |
Evergreen Broad-leaved Forest & Shrubs Sections. |
Hobby |
Reading books. |
Home Place |
Ishigaki,Okinawa. |
Comment or message |
I like to study on the plant taxa globally as well as Japanese
natives. |
E-mail adress |
gkokubu@kahaku.go.jp |
Name |
Norio TANAKA |
 |
Status |
Curator. |
Professional Speciality |
Phylogeny of the family Hydrocharitaceae. |
Garden Area in charge |
Hygrophytes Section, Marsh Plants & Aquatic Plants Sections,
and Exotic Useful Plants Section. |
Hobby |
Car driving. |
Home Place |
Tokyo. |
Comment or message |
Wishing to create the garden which can give you more interest
in Botany. |
E-mail adress |
ntanaka@kahaku.go.jp. |

| Name |
Tamotsu HASHIMOTO |
 |
| Status |
Curator Emeritus
(Former Director) |
| Professional Speciality |
Taxonomy of vascular plants,especially of the Orchidaceae
& Violaceae. |
| Hobby |
Digital photography,reading mysteries,listening music etc. |
| Home Place |
Saga-shi,Saga-ken. |
| Comment or message |
Hoping to be an excellent example of botanical garden by the
global standard. A refined botanical garden is a heritage of human beings. |
| E-mail adress |
hasimoto@kahaku.go.jp |

Return
|