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Tsukuba Botanical Garden

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.

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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


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