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Botanic Garden Lab (Kato)
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Research on restoring lost information in specimens and materials dating back to Sapporo Agricultural College.
AboutAbout the lab
Tracing the history of old specimens and materials
Associate Professor Kato studies the history of the specimens and materials of the Sapporo Agricultural College Museum (today's Botanic Garden and Museum).
The museum holds specimens that can no longer be collected, such as those of the Ezo wolf, tree specimens made by the Kaitakushi, and archaeological and Ainu materials.
The aim is to re-examine information that has been lost or confused over many years, and thereby raise the value of the specimens and materials.
He belongs to the Botanic Garden (Chuo-ku, Sapporo) of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Key terms
- Kaitakushi (Hokkaido Colonization Commission)
- A government office established in the early Meiji period to develop Hokkaido. It created the Sapporo Temporary Museum, the origin of the museum in Sapporo
- Specimen register
- A ledger recording information on the specimens a museum has collected, such as their names and the places and dates of collection
ResearchResearch themes
The main purpose is to make the materials and specimens handed down at the Sapporo Agricultural College Museum more important by adding information that has been lost, as well as information learned from the latest research. The lab also studies the history of specimen management at the museum and the history of the researchers who collected the specimens.
*Illustrative imageRestoring information on specimens and materials
All of the museum's holdings are subject to study, including animals and plants, archaeological, ethnographic, and historical materials, and paintings. By examining the materials themselves, their specimen labels, old specimen registers and historical documents, and researchers' notebooks and letters, the lab adds information that was lost or never attached to the materials.
*Illustrative imageHistory of the museum and of those who collected specimens
As a foundation for this work, and as something that emerges from its results, the lab also studies the history of the museum, centered on the history of specimen management at the Sapporo Agricultural College Museum, and the history of the researchers who collected the specimens.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorMasaru Kato
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Hokkaido University Museum in Botanic Garden” K. Takeda at Japanese Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Restoring information on specimens and materials: “Sapporo Botanischer Garten Tannenzapfen-20091014-RM-115902” Ermell / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- History of the museum and of those who collected specimens: “131103 Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens Sapporo Hokkaido Japan39o” 663highland / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Botanic Garden Lab (Nakamura)): “Callianthemum miyabeanum ( )” sunoochi from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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