Yoshida Hikorokuro

Yoshida Hikorokuro (1859-1929) published a two-volume chemistry textbook for secondary schools, normal schools (teachers colleges), and liberal arts colleges in 1893, soon after the publication of Takamatsu s textbook. Yoshida studied chemistry under Atkinson in the Department of Chemistry at Tokyo University and graduated in 1880. After working in the Geological Survey of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce as an analytical chemist until 1886, he became associate professor of the College of Science at Tokyo Imperial University in 1886, professor... 

For Yoshida Hikorokuro, see ShibaTetsuo, Yoshida Hikorokuro [in Japanese] Woko Junyaku Jiho 70(3), 2-4. 

Yoshida Hikorokuro, Chuto Kagaku Kyokasho [Chemistry Textbook for Secondary schools] 2 vols, (Tokyo Kinkodo, 1893). 

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