Sagara Tomoyasu
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The monument to Sagara at Tokyo Uni.
Sagara Tomoyasu (相良知安? 1836-1906) was a ranpōi (蘭方医?), or a doctor who used medical techniques learned from Dutch traders, from Saga Prefecture, Japan. He learned from a Dutch doctor named Bowdoin[1] who advised the Meiji government to adopt the techniques of German medicine, which they consequently did. In the early days of the Meiji era, he was involved in medical administration, and was Monbu-sho Imukyoku-cho (文部省医務局長) (the Medical Affairs Bureau Chief of the Ministry of Education).
In afterlife, he got poor and lived in slum with girl friend (愛人 Aijin?), and became a augur (占い師 Uranaishi?) for harlots (遊女 Yūjyo?). In 1906, he suffered from influenza and died alone. An Imperial envoy (御勅使 Gochokushi?) was sent to his home to offer saishiryō (祭粢料?), or a monetary offering to a departed spirit. The people who live in the neighborhood could not understand why the envoy of the emperor came to the poor elderly. His grave is at the Jōryu Temple (城雲院 Jōryuin?) in Saga, Saga Prefecture. He was named the Buddhist name (戒名 kaimyo?) of (「鉄心院覚道知安居士」[2]. Tesshin'in-kakudō-chian'iji?).
A monument honoring Sagara was raised at Tokyo University. Ishiguro Tadanori (石黒忠悳?), a doctor in the Imperial Japanese Army, drafted the text.
- ^ Kikuchi Dairoku (1915). The Introduction of Western Learning into Japan (PDF). Rice University. Retrieved on March 11, 2007.
- ^ It means in Japanese or Chinese as The man who had strong will and carried out one's belief
[edit] References
- ^ Kikuchi Dairoku (1915). The Introduction of Western Learning into Japan (PDF). Rice University. Retrieved on March 11, 2007.
- ^ It means in Japanese or Chinese as The man who had strong will and carried out one's belief
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