Nagayo Sensai
Nagayo Sensai | |
|---|---|
 Baron Nagayo Sensai | |
| Born | October 16, 1838 |
| Died | September 8, 1902 (aged 63) Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation(s) | Medical doctor, politician |
Baron Nagayo Sensai (長与 専斎, October 16, 1838 – September 8, 1902) was a
Meiji period Japan
.
Biography
Nagayo was born to a family of traditional physicians in Ōmura Domain, Hizen Province (present day Ōmura Nagasaki Prefecture). After studies at the Gokōkan domain academy he studied rangaku under Ogata Kōan in Osaka, and returned to Ōmura afterwards to accept an official position with the domain and rank of samurai.
With the establishment of the
western medical practices. Nagayo continued to work with Pompe van Meerdervoot’s successor’s, Antonio Bauduin and Constant George van Mansveldt through 1868. The medical training college and its associated hospital is now part of Nagasaki University
.
After the
Tokyo Imperial University
.
Grave of Nagayo Sensai
After his retirement from medicine in 1891, Nagayo served on the peerage system.
Nagayo also established a hospital for
Kamakura, and publicized the benefits of Kamakura as a health resort for its clean sea air. He died in 1902, and his grave is at the Aoyama Cemetery
in Tokyo.
References and further reading
- Ban, Tadayasu. Tekijuku to Nagayo Sensai: Eiseigaku to Shoko shishi. Sogensha 1987. ISBN 4-422-21009-2(Japanese)
- Hardacre, Helen. New directions in the study of Meiji Japan. Brill. ISBN 9004107355
- Rogaski, Ruth. Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China. University of California Press. (2004). ISBN 0520930606
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