Background
Gendo Takeuchi was born in 1805 in Kaga, Hokkaido, Japan. He was the second son of Genryu.
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Gendo Takeuchi
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Education
He began studying Dutch at an early age from Shinzan Fuiibayashi and later turned to medicine under Von Siebold at Nagasaki.
Career
For awhile he was appointed private physician to a clan lord, and was ordered by the Shogunate to translate Dutch books into Japanese (1842). He was appointed physician to the Shogunate (1858), the first doctor of the foreign school of medicine to be given such an appointment. His skill soon won him the title of Hoin. He was later appointed director of the Western School of Medicine.
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