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Identity of the collector
The collector J. Sato on the slips of Sato 8107 (1936), Sato 8108 (1936) and Sato 8593 (1941) is taken to be the botanist 佐藤潤平 on four grounds.
- The slips are printed Herbarium Junpei Sato. and their collector line reads J. Sato.
- Kitamura Siro's biography of 佐藤潤平 (Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica 24: 194–198, 1970) carries the printed English title "A biography of Junpei SATO", the spelling of the slips.
- The places and the years fit his posts in that biography. He was at Port Arthur from December 1921 and directed the botanical garden there from 31 March 1928 to 31 March 1938; the two 1936 slips are from Lüshun (旅順). He managed the Liaoyang County guidance farm from 31 March 1938 to the end of the war; the 1941 slip is from a village in Liaoyang County.
- Tagawa's list of the Manchurian ferns he gave to Kyoto University (same journal, 16: 52–55, 1955) is headed in Japanese with his name, 佐藤潤平, and in German "Mandschurische Pteridophyten gesammelt von J. SATO". It cites numbered gatherings of his from two hills at Lüshun, nos. 3741 and 3742.
No source read names him as the collector of the three cannabis numbers.
The Harvard Index of Botanists (botanist 132554) lists a J. Satô with no dates or given name and the note "Manchuria: TI" (sheets at the University of Tokyo). Nothing in that entry ties it to this man or sets it apart, and the article does not cite it.
Sources read
- Kitamura (1970), read from the J-STAGE PDF: the text layer, checked against the page images of pp. 194, 196, 197 and 198. Kitamura asked Sato for an autobiography in January 1970. His wife, Toshiko, sent instead his curriculum vitae and his memoir 「植物とともに40年」 (Green Age, September 1955, pp. 24–31), and he died within the month. Most of the biography follows those two documents, so its dates and figures are close to Sato's own account. The memoir itself was not read.
- Tagawa (1955), p. 52, read on the page image: the introduction and the first entries of the list.
- Not read: Kitamura's 1935 paper on the Manchurian daisy family collected by Sato (Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica 4: 101–104), cited in the article through the 1970 biography; Kitamura's note on where Sato's Manchurian specimens remained (same journal, 15(3), back cover, 25 December 1953); Sato's own books.
- Wikidata has items for Kitamura's biography (Q101148746), Tagawa's paper (Q101148066) and a 1934 notice of Sato's East Ujimqin report (Q101149666), but none for Sato himself. Neither the English nor the Japanese Wikipedia has an article on him.
Name
The title follows the slips and the English title of Kitamura's biography: Junpei Sato, without the macron of Hepburn romanisation (Satō). The Harvard index writes Satô. J. Sato, the slips' form, redirects here.
Source discrepancies
- Years in Manchuria. Kitamura gives Sato's own figure of 31 years in Manchuria. The dates in the same biography, 23 December 1921 to 14 October 1953, span almost 32 years. The article gives the dates and keeps "31 years" with his count of specimens.
What the sources do not say
- Kitamura gives no place of death. After his return Sato lived at Kiyose, in the Kitatama District of Tokyo.
- None of the sources read says how the three cannabis sheets came to the herbaria in Beijing and Shenyang, or what became of the herbarium at the Liaoyang farm after 1953.
- The numbers on the slips (8107 and 8108 in July 1936, 8593 in September 1941) and the fern numbers in Tagawa's list are not dated as a series in any source read.
Portrait
No photograph of Sato with a known source and licence was found, and the page shows no image. The cannabis sheets are published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 and are cited, not reproduced.