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Sasuke Nakao

なかお さすけ

Nakao Sasuke

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1916-08-16 (Kanaya-machi, Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan)
Died
1993-11-20 (Kita-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan) age 77
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Botanist
Active Years
1943-1982
Affiliations
Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Kyoto University, Osaka Prefecture University, Kagoshima University

Education

Preparatory School No. 8
Science Section A
Period: 1935-1938
Year of Graduation: 1938
Country: Japan
Kyoto Imperial University, Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Agriculture / Department of Agricultural and Forestry Biology
Degree: 学士(農学)
Period: 1939-1941
Year of Graduation: 1941
Country: Japan
Kyoto University Graduate School of Agriculture
Degree: 博士(農学)
Period: 1961-1962
Year of Graduation: 1962
Country: Japan
Doctoral thesis: Studies on the taxonomy, origins and transmittance of the crops in the Sino-Himalayan range

Awards

8th Japan Essayist Club Award
1960
Work: Bhutan: A Hidden Region
Organization: Japan Essayist Club
Result: 受賞
Naniwa Prize
1962
Organization: Naniwa Prize Organizing Committee
Result: 受賞
41st Mainichi Publishing Culture Award
1987
Work: A Cultural History of Flowers and Trees
Organization: Mainichi Newspapers
Result: 受賞
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
1989
Category: 勲三等
Organization: Government of Japan
Result: 受章
26th Chichibu-no-miya Memorial Academic Prize
1990
Work: Ethnobotanical Studies on the Cultural Complex of Cultivated Plants and the Origins of Agriculture
Organization: Chichibu-no-miya Memorial Academic Prize Committee
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Bibliography

  • Bhutan: A Hidden Region
  • Flowers of the Himalayas
  • The Origins of Cultivated Plants and Agriculture
  • Explorations in Asian Culture
  • Journey of Agricultural Origins: From Niger to the Nile
  • The Origins of Cooking
  • The World of Cultivated Plants
  • Two Streams of Modern Civilization: Evergreen Broadleaf and Sclerophyllous Forest Cultures
  • A Cultural History of Flowers and Trees
  • The Concept of Classification: Establishing the Rules of Thought