Nagayo Sensai

Nagayo Sensai

Nagayo Sensai ( Japanese 長與專齋 ; born 16th October 1838 in Omura in Hizen Province ; died 8. September 1902 ) was a Japanese physician of the late Edo and Meiji period .

Nagayo, 1872

Nagayo's tomb

life and work

Nagayo Sensai was born into a family of doctors belonging to Ōmura- Han . At the age of 16 he went to Osaka and studied under the doctor Ogata Kōan (1810-1863).

After Nagayo served as the director of the Nagasaki Medical School (長崎 医 学校), he visited America and Europe as a member of the Iwakura Mission . After his return he was responsible for the establishment of a department for medical matters in the Ministry of Education, for the establishment of a vaccination law and for the formulation of comprehensive medical legislation, the "Isei" (医 政).

Nagayo supported the establishment of the "Tōkyō Igakkō" (東京 医 学校), which later became the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tokyo . He was their dean from 1875 to 1878. He is buried in the Aoyama cemetery .

Remarks

1. ↑ Today Nagasaki Prefecture .
2. ↑ Recorded in Berlin.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Nagayo Sensai . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1035.

Web links

• Note on Aoyama Cemetery (Japanese)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Nagayo is the family name, Sensai the first name.