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| Material Name |
ITO Keisuke |
| Year(Japanes Era Name) |
Kyowa 3-Meiji34 |
| Year |
1803-1901 |
| Description |
ITO Keisuke (1803-1901) was born in Gofuku-cho in Nagoya.He learned Confucianism and medicine from his physician father, Dr. NISHIYAMA Gendo (1752-1843), and in Bunsei year 3 (1820) began to practice medicine at age 18.In Bunsei year 10 (1827), he headed for Nagasaki to learn botany from Philipp Franz Balthazar von SIEBOLD (1796-1866), and at the age of 27 published his first translation, "Taisei Honzo Meiso (Commentary on Western Plant Names)".Later, in Kaei year 5 (1852) he was requested by the current feudal lord of Owari to run an inquiry into smallpox vaccination methods, and after that devoted himself fully to medicine in the Owari domain.
In the first year of the Meiji period (1868), ITO Keisuke, along with first-grade domain doctor ISHII Ryuan (1811-1884) and NAKAJIMA Sanhaku, court physician to the 21st feudal lord of the Owari Tokugawa clan TOKUGAWA Yoshinori (1858-1875), signed a proposal for the establishment of a school of Western medicine in Nagoya, leading to the first medical school being set up in the Nagoya domain's former conference chamber. |
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1 sheet |
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Photo
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