Background
Son of Nagatsuna Hashimoto, a physician of the Echizen Clan (Fukui Prefecture), he was born in Fukui City. Sanai Hashimoto, noted loyalist, was his brother.
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Tsunatsune Hashimoto
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Studied at the Meidokan School and under Physician Chuan Nakai. Further studied in Nagasaki and Edo.
Career
Became subsequently a professor at the Tokyo University and chief of the Medical Bureau, War Office. Nominated a member of the House of Peers, Court Council, and Imperial Academy and Surgeon General. He was made a surgery instructor at his clan’s medical school. (1866). When the imperial forces attacked Aiza, Fukushima Prefecture, he created a field hospital in Echigo (Niigata Prefecture). Traveled to Europe (1872). He served as a military surgeon in a campaign against insurgents led by Takamori Saigo (1877).
