Background
Otsuki Shunsai was born in 1806. Original personal name: Haiime. His other names included Chubin and Koen.
Otsuki Shunsai was born in 1806. Original personal name: Haiime. His other names included Chubin and Koen.
When young, studied in Edo and then in Nagasaki, where he was initiated into Western medicine by Philipp Siebold, a German physician.
Practiced medicine in Edo. Was appointed a Shogunate physician and instructor at the Shogunate's Occidental Medicine School.