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*''Born: [[1697]]''
*''Died: [[1781]]/3/30''
*''Other Names'': 国華 ''(Kuniteru)'', 甫三 ''(Hosan)''
*''Japanese'': [[桂川]]甫筑 ''(Katsuragawa Hochiku)''
Katsuragawa Hochiku, also known as Kuniteru and Hosan, was a samurai physician in service to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. He is said to have been particularly expert at the mixing of medicines.
Born in [[Kai province]] the eldest son of [[Katsuragawa Hochiku (Kunimichi)]], he was the second head of the Katsuragawa family, and the second to hold the name Hochiku. In [[1735]], he was named court physician (''oku ishi'') to the shogunate. He was later granted the physicians' lay monastic title of ''[[hogan|hôgan]]''.
His son [[Katsuragawa Hoken|Katsuragawa Hochiku (Kuninori)]] and grandson [[Katsuragawa Hoshu|Katsuragawa Hoshû]] succeeded him as official shogunate physician.
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==References==
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%A1%82%E5%B7%9D%E7%94%AB%E7%AD%91%282%29-1065756#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 (2)]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha, 2009.
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]