Kusumoto Ine
Kusumoto Ine was a Japanese physician. She was the daughter of Kusumoto Taki, who was a courtesan from Nagasaki and the German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold, who worked on Dejima, an island foreigners were restricted to during Japans long period of seclusion from the world. Ine was also known as OIne and later in life took the name Itoku . In Japanese she is often called Oranda OIne for her association with Dejima and its Dutchlanguage Western learning. She was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan.
Shiimoto Ine was born onMay 1827 in the city of Nagasaki. The surname Shiimoto came from a Japanese rendering of the surname of her German father, the physician Philipp Franz von Siebold, who was living on Dejima, an artificial island off Nagasaki to where foreign trade was restricted during the more than two centuries of Japans neartotal selfseclusion from the world. There he played a role in introducing Western medical techniques to Japan. Ines mother was Kusumoto Taki, a courtesan160 sent atfrom the Nagasaki pleasure district160 Maruyama in 1823 to be Siebolds concubine.
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