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*''Born: [[1730]]/5/26''
*''Died: [[1783]]/7/30''
*''Other Names'': 桂川甫筑 ''(Katsuragawa Hochiku)'', 甫三 ''(Hosan)'', 国訓 ''(Kuninori)''
*''Japanese'': [[桂川]]甫賢 ''(Katsuragawa Hoken)''
Katsuragawa Hoken, also known as Hochiku and Kuninori, was a samurai physician in service to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], and is said to have been particularly exceptional in [[Rangaku|Dutch medicine]]. He was the third head of the Katsuragawa family, and third to be called Katsuragawa Hochiku.
He was born in [[Edo]] in [[1730]], the eldest son of [[Katsuragawa Hochiku (Kuniteru)]]. In [[1760]], at the age of 30, he followed in his father's footsteps and was named court physician (''oku ishi'') to the shogunate. He was named to the honorary Buddhist rank of ''[[hogan|hôgan]]'' in [[1766]].
Hoken's sons included the scholar and physician [[Katsuragawa Hoshu|Katsuragawa Hoshû]], and writer [[Morishima Churyo|Morishima Chûryô]].<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 226.</ref>
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==References==
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%A1%82%E5%B7%9D%E7%94%AB%E7%AD%91%283%29-1065757#E3.83.87.E3.82.B8.E3.82.BF.E3.83.AB.E7.89.88.20.E6.97.A5.E6.9C.AC.E4.BA.BA.E5.90.8D.E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E5.85.B8.2BPlus Katsuragawa Hochiku (3)]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha 2009.
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[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]