Talk:Sato 8593 (1941)
More actions
Discussion for: Sato 8593 (1941) • View • Links • Related changes
Use this page for verification notes, disputes, and action items. Keep narrative content on the article.
Discussion
Evidentiary scope
The label marks the plant (cult), cultivated, at a village of Liaoyang County in September 1941. It names no use. Drug-type cannabis from different regions began to be cross-bred, and its seed carried into old growing areas, in the 1970s (McPartland and Small 2020, pp. 84–85), so a hybrid origin is not considered for a sheet gathered in in 1941. The accession is classified Landrace, by inference from the label. The sheet does not show what became of the crop or whether its seed survives, and no conservation priority is assigned.
Label reading
Read twice, independently, from the Chinese Virtual Herbarium's image of the sheet (PE 00557874, 1,050 × 1,440 pixels).
- Label (printed Herbarium Junpei Sato., completed by hand): No. 8593 / Cannabis sativa Linnaeus / Japanese Name: アサ (♀) / Locality: 奉天省 遼陽縣 沙[·]村 (cult) / Date: Sep. 6. 1941. / Collector: J. Sato.
- Herbarium stamp of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences; stamped number 258240.
The readings agree on the number, the date, the collector and (cult). Both find the province and county likely and the village uncertain: one leaves its second character unread, the other reads 沙光村, uncertain.
Georeferencing
奉天省 was Fengtien, a province of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945 (Wikidata Q697544), and 遼陽縣 is Liaoyang County, today a county of Liaoyang, Liaoning (Wikidata Q1332373). The village, 沙[·]村, could not be placed with its second character unread. Today's Liaoyang County (OpenStreetMap relation 2769642, about 2,450 km²) wraps the urban districts of Liaoyang, and its own middle falls outside it; the county of 1941 is taken to cover today's county and the city it surrounds. The point 41.27, 123.17 is Liaoyang's place node in OpenStreetMap (node 244081111); every part of today's county lies within about 63 km of it. It is an area point for the old county, not the place the plant was gathered. Basis: district point. Uncertainty: about 63 km.
Editorial treatment
Classification. Landrace follows from the label's (cult) at a named village in 1941.
Collector. The collector field keeps the label's J. Sato, as on Sato 8107 (1936), and redirects to Junpei Sato; the label's printed heading gives the name Junpei Sato. Kitamura Siro's biography of 佐藤潤平 (Junpei Sato, 1896–1970; Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica 24: 194–198, 1970), whose printed English title spells the name as the slip does, records him as manager of the Liaoyang County guidance farm from 31 March 1938 until the end of the war in 1945, which fits the county and the year of this sheet. Tagawa's 1955 list of the Manchurian ferns Sato gave to Kyoto University (the same journal, 16: 52–55) is headed gesammelt von J. Sato and cites numbered gatherings of his from two hills at Lüshun. No source read names him as the collector of this number; the identification rests on the printed name, the place and the year.
Province. Fengtien no longer exists; Liaoyang lies in today's Liaoning, and the province field takes Liaoning.
Image. The Chinese Virtual Herbarium publishes its images under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, so the page cites each sheet's image and shows none.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 22:22, 13 October 2026 (+07)