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Created page with "*''Born: 1843'' *''Died: 1911'' *''Other Names'': 岡本道庵 ''(Okamoto Douan)'' *''Japanese'': 佐藤舜海 ''(Satou Shunkai)'' Satô Shunkai was a ''[[Rangaku..."
*''Born: [[1843]]''
*''Died: [[1911]]''
*''Other Names'': 岡本道庵 ''(Okamoto Douan)''
*''Japanese'': [[佐藤]]舜海 ''(Satou Shunkai)''
Satô Shunkai was a ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar, medical expert, and third head of the [[Juntendo|Juntendô]] in [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]], [[Chiba prefecture]].
Born the son of [[Sakura han]] retainer [[Okamoto Chiharu]], Shunkai became a boarding student the Juntendô and studied Dutch language and medicine under [[Sato Taizen|Satô Taizen]] and [[Sato Takanaka|Satô Takanaka]]. He then became an official court physician in service to the [[han|domain]], and following a set of domainal medical reforms in [[1866]], was named Third Court Physician.
After Satô Takanaka retired in [[1874]], he adopted Dôan, granting him the name Satô Shunkai<ref>After his own name, Yamaguchi Shunkai, prior to being adopted by Taizen and becoming Satô Takanaka.</ref>, and naming him head of the Juntendô. As head of the school, Shunkai oversaw the conversion of two of the Juntendô's ''[[tatami]]'' rooms into a single Western-style room, among other renovations to make the building better suitable for a modern/Western-style medical school and hospital. Shunkai and others associated with the Juntendô also served as medical officers for the Sakura Infantry Hospital.
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==References==
*Pamphlets available at the Juntendô Memorial Buildings Museum.
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*''Died: [[1911]]''
*''Other Names'': 岡本道庵 ''(Okamoto Douan)''
*''Japanese'': [[佐藤]]舜海 ''(Satou Shunkai)''
Satô Shunkai was a ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar, medical expert, and third head of the [[Juntendo|Juntendô]] in [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]], [[Chiba prefecture]].
Born the son of [[Sakura han]] retainer [[Okamoto Chiharu]], Shunkai became a boarding student the Juntendô and studied Dutch language and medicine under [[Sato Taizen|Satô Taizen]] and [[Sato Takanaka|Satô Takanaka]]. He then became an official court physician in service to the [[han|domain]], and following a set of domainal medical reforms in [[1866]], was named Third Court Physician.
After Satô Takanaka retired in [[1874]], he adopted Dôan, granting him the name Satô Shunkai<ref>After his own name, Yamaguchi Shunkai, prior to being adopted by Taizen and becoming Satô Takanaka.</ref>, and naming him head of the Juntendô. As head of the school, Shunkai oversaw the conversion of two of the Juntendô's ''[[tatami]]'' rooms into a single Western-style room, among other renovations to make the building better suitable for a modern/Western-style medical school and hospital. Shunkai and others associated with the Juntendô also served as medical officers for the Sakura Infantry Hospital.
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==References==
*Pamphlets available at the Juntendô Memorial Buildings Museum.
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]