Background
Kensai Tkeda was born in Echigo (Niigata Prefecture), the second son of Kenzo Irisawa a clansman of Nagaoka.
池田謙齋
Kensai Tkeda was born in Echigo (Niigata Prefecture), the second son of Kenzo Irisawa a clansman of Nagaoka.
Studied medicine in Nagasaki and during the Meiji Restoration was appointed medical doctor to the Army (1807-68).
Later he was sent to Germany for further medical studies (1870) and upon return became director of Medical Schools with rank of major general (1873), Dean of Tokyo University’s Faculty of Medicine (1877), chief of Court Medical Bureau (1886) and then surgeon to the Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) and became a Baron (1898).
He became the son-in-law of Hidezane Ikeda.