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Kan Matsuno
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Entered the forestry school in Prussia in 1870.
Career
Accompanied Prince Yoshihisa Kitasnirakawa-no-Miya to Europe. Returning home was attached to the newly established Forestry Bureau then under the Home Ministry and classified forests throughout the country. Later when the bureau was transferred to Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce he moved with it in 1881 and stayed with them till he was appointed a director of Nishigahara Forestry School, Tokyo. Later was a director of Forestry Experimental Station, Meguro, Tokyo. He is regarded as the father of dendrology in Japan.
