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*''Born: [[1800]]''
*''Japanese'': [[伊東]] 玄朴 ''(Itou Genboku)''
Itô Genboku was a scholar of [[Rangaku|Dutch medicine]], whose offices became the predecessor to the [[University of Tokyo]] School of Medicine.
Born in [[1800]] into a farming family in [[Hizen province]], he developed an interest in medicine and traveled to [[Nagasaki]], where he was able to study medicine and Dutch language with [[Philipp von Siebold]] and interpreter [[Inomata Den'emon]].
In [[1828]], he moved to [[Edo]] and established his own medical office there. Three years later, he became an official court physician to [[Saga domain]], while maintaining his private practice. It is said that there was regularly a long line of patients eager to see him. At one time, Genboku was also invited by [[Shimazu Nariakira]] to come to [[Satsuma han|Satsuma domain]] and to contribute to translation and other scientific efforts.<ref>''Honjin ni tomatta daimyô tachi'', Toyohashi, Aichi: Futagawa-juku honjin shiryôkan (1996), 32.</ref>
In [[1849]], the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] issued bans on Dutch Studies, Dutch medicine, and translation of Dutch books. Yet, at the same time, they invited Genboku to help run a private vaccination station established by the shogunate. The station was finally built in [[1858]], and was destroyed in a fire the following year. It was reestablished at Genboku's home the year after that, in [[1860]], and was shortly afterwards put under more direct shogunate control. It was renamed the ''Seiyô igaku sho'' (Office of Western Medicine), and Genboku became officially employed by the shogunate. The [[Meiji government]] retained him in a similar position, and this Office of Western Medicine later developed into the University of Tokyo School of Medicine.
Genboku died in [[1871]], at the age of 72, and was buried at Tenryû-in in the Yanaka district of [[Tokyo]].
==References==
*Plaque at grave of Itô Genboku, Tenryû-in, Yanaka, Tokyo.
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[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
*''Japanese'': [[伊東]] 玄朴 ''(Itou Genboku)''
Itô Genboku was a scholar of [[Rangaku|Dutch medicine]], whose offices became the predecessor to the [[University of Tokyo]] School of Medicine.
Born in [[1800]] into a farming family in [[Hizen province]], he developed an interest in medicine and traveled to [[Nagasaki]], where he was able to study medicine and Dutch language with [[Philipp von Siebold]] and interpreter [[Inomata Den'emon]].
In [[1828]], he moved to [[Edo]] and established his own medical office there. Three years later, he became an official court physician to [[Saga domain]], while maintaining his private practice. It is said that there was regularly a long line of patients eager to see him. At one time, Genboku was also invited by [[Shimazu Nariakira]] to come to [[Satsuma han|Satsuma domain]] and to contribute to translation and other scientific efforts.<ref>''Honjin ni tomatta daimyô tachi'', Toyohashi, Aichi: Futagawa-juku honjin shiryôkan (1996), 32.</ref>
In [[1849]], the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] issued bans on Dutch Studies, Dutch medicine, and translation of Dutch books. Yet, at the same time, they invited Genboku to help run a private vaccination station established by the shogunate. The station was finally built in [[1858]], and was destroyed in a fire the following year. It was reestablished at Genboku's home the year after that, in [[1860]], and was shortly afterwards put under more direct shogunate control. It was renamed the ''Seiyô igaku sho'' (Office of Western Medicine), and Genboku became officially employed by the shogunate. The [[Meiji government]] retained him in a similar position, and this Office of Western Medicine later developed into the University of Tokyo School of Medicine.
Genboku died in [[1871]], at the age of 72, and was buried at Tenryû-in in the Yanaka district of [[Tokyo]].
==References==
*Plaque at grave of Itô Genboku, Tenryû-in, Yanaka, Tokyo.
<references/>
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]