Shinsai Udagawa

Background

Shinsai Udagawa was born in 1769 in Ise (Mie Prefecture). Original family name: Yasuoka.

Education

Shinsai Udagawa studied the Dutch language under Gentaku Otsuki. Also studied pharmacology.

Career

Shinsai Udagawa revised his father-in-laws' book Naika Senyo (Essentials of Medicine). Later compiled Ensei Ihan (Textbook on Medicine of the Far West) and published a summarized edition of that book under the title of Han-i Teiko (Manual of Medicine) which was hailed as the ideal textbook of medicine at the time.

Works

• book

  • Ensei Empo Meibutsu-ko

    (Study of Things of the Faraway West)

  • Oranda, Yakukyo

    (The Mirror of Dutch Pharmacology)

Connections

Shinsai Udagawa became son-in-law of his master Genzui.