High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Marquis Yoshimaro Yamashina was a Japanese ornithologist. He was the founder of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology. Yamashina was born in K?jimachi Tokyo, the second son of Prince Kikumaro Yamashina. He developed a love of birds at an early age, which were found in abundance on the vast Yamashina estate in Tokyo. He was presented with a stuffed mandarin duck for his sixth birthday present. Yamashina attended the Gakushuin Peer's School, and per the orders of Emperor Meiji entered the Imperial Japanese Army, graduating from the 33rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy with a specialty in artillery. In 1920, per a revision in the Imperial Household Law, he lost his status as an imperial prince, and was given the peerage title of marquis (shishaku), and was promoted in military rank to lieutenant. However, he resigned his commission in the Army in 1929 to pursue his interest in zoology, and entered Tokyo Imperial University, graduating in 1931.

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