Born into a wealthy sake-brewing family at Sakawa in Tosa (Kōchi).
He left elementary school and threw himself into studying plants on his own.
In Tokyo he was allowed to work in the University of Tokyo's botany department.
He began publishing an illustrated flora using his own drawings.
He published the scientific name of a new plant, Yamatogusa, among the first scientific plant names given by a Japanese in Japan.
He became a lecturer at Tokyo Imperial University; in his life he named over 1,500 plants.
His research recognized, he received a doctorate in science.
When his devoted wife Sue died, he named a newly found bamboo grass Suekozasa after her.
He published Makino's Illustrated Flora of Japan, still in use today.
He died in Tokyo.
Hara TakashiOzaki YukioKatō TakaakiKatō TomosaburōNagaoka HantarōMinakata KumagusuNishida KitarōHonda Kōtarō
People of the Taishō period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.