Background
Konzan Goto was born in Edo. His given name was Satoru.
Konzan Goto was born in Edo. His given name was Satoru.
He studied Confucian classics there and medicine in Kyoto, where he became a well- known physician.
He devised a spoon for the purpose of measuring doses. Although the Tokugawa Shogunate asked him to serve it with a fief of 1,000 kokut he refused it.
Although at his time physicians shaved their heads like Buddhist priests, he had his hair dressed in foreign style.
