Background
Ogino was born in Musashi province (present-day Kumagaya city, Saitama prefecture). She was married at the age of 16 to the son of the first director of Ashikaga Bank.
荻野 吟子
Ogino was born in Musashi province (present-day Kumagaya city, Saitama prefecture). She was married at the age of 16 to the son of the first director of Ashikaga Bank.
Ochanomizu University.
After the embarrassment of having to visit male doctors with what was considered a “shameful” disease, she resolved that she would become a doctor to help women in similar circumstances. After graduating from Tokyo Women"s Normal School (present-day Ochanomizu University), she entered Juntendo University, which was at that time a private medical academy with an all-male student body. Despite prejudice and much hardship, she graduated in 1882, and after numerous petitions, was finally allowed to take her medical practitioner"s examination in 1885.
She opened the Ogino Hospital in Yushima, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, in Tokyo the same year as the first registered woman doctor in Japan.
She also served as staff doctor to the girls" school of Meiji Gakuin University. She was also active in the Woman"s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Ogino died of atherosclerosis in Tokyo in 1913.