{{short description|Japanese astronomer}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Issei Yamamoto | native_name = 山本一清 | native_name_lang = Japanese | image = Yamamoto Issei.JPG | caption = | birth_date = May 27, 1889 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1959|01|16|1889|05|27}} | death_place = | citizenship = Japan | fields = astronomy | workplaces = Kyoto University, {{ill|Oriental Astronomical Association|ja|東亜天文学会}}, Kwasan Observatory | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | known_for = }} {{Nihongo|'''Issei Yamamoto'''|{{linktext|山本}} {{linktext|一清}}|Yamamoto Issei| extra=1889–1959}} was a Japanese astronomer and professor at Kyoto University. In 1920, he became first president of the {{ill|Oriental Astronomical Association|ja|東亜天文学会}}. He was director of the Kwasan Observatory in Kyoto.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tamazawa |first1=Harufumi |title=Sunspot observation by the cooperation of amateur astronomers and researchers in Japan in early 20th century as early citizen science program |journal=Education and Heritage in the Era of Big Data in Astronomy |date=1 January 2021 |volume=367 |pages=336–338 |doi=10.1017/S1743921321000776 |bibcode=2021IAUS..367..336T |s2cid=245386538 |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021IAUS..367..336T/abstract |access-date=22 February 2022}}</ref>
==Honors== ''Named after him:'' * The crater Yamamoto on the Moon. * Asteroid 2249 Yamamoto.
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