Background
In 1900, he was born in Kikuchi District, Kumamoto Prefecture.
内田 守
In 1900, he was born in Kikuchi District, Kumamoto Prefecture.
Later, he studied social welfare as a professor at Kumamoto Junior College. He extensively studied the history of leprosy, and presented many documents to the Kumamoto Prefectural Library as Uchida Library. 338 items were shown at an exhibition of Hansen"s disease and literature in 2003.
He graduated from Kumamoto Medical School in 1924 and entered the Kyushu Sanatorium.
In 1934, he became a Doctor of Philosophy for his study on murine leprosy.
He taught leprosy patients tanka, in these sanatoriums. He used the name "Morito Uchida (内田 守人)" in literature. He found a large house where 23% of mice were infected with murine leprosy.
He studied leprosy patients around the Honmyoji temple.
In three sanatoriums, he taught tanka which consists of five units (often treated as separate lines when Romanized or translated). He helped many tanka poets in compiling their tanka books
After the war, he returned to Kumamoto and in 1950, became a professor at Kumamoto Junior College. He studied social welfare and wrote several books
He was the president of the 1965 Congress of social welfare association.
He died in 1982. Uchida found that patients with leprosy who led miserable life had found hopes and pleasure in making tanka. He helped many tanka poets in compiling their tanka books
And the books he wrote and complied amounted to 40 books
He was so active in everything, so that they said "Uchida pollutions".
He wrote 34 medical papers in Japanese. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy on his studies on eye diseases of mice infected with murine leprosy. Eye diseases in murine leprosy. Report 1-4. (1932)(1933). Uchida M. 3-4, 4-3. He studied leprosy patients in Honmyoji temple. He insisted that the popularization of water supply service was effective in reducing leprosy. In 1971, he was given the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 4th Class, for the administration of social welfare and for education.
