MATSUMOTO Ryojun

Date of Birth and Death
July 13, 1832 - March 12, 1907
Birthplace (modern name)
Tokyo
Occupation, Status
Doctor, Pharmacist, etc. , Politician
Pen name etc.
Junnosuke (childhood name), Ranchu, Sato (maiden name)

Description

Doctor, statesman. The second son of SATO Taizen, a doctor who served the Sakura Clan. He was adopted as a child by Ryoho Matsumoto, a doctor who served the shogunate government. In 1857, by order of the shogunate government, he devoted himself to running Nagasaki Yojosho (a Western-style hospital) and Medical School as J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort's medical trainee. In 1862, he returned to Edo and, as the third president of the shogunate government's medical school, introduced the modern medical education methods he had learned directly from Pompe. During the Boshin War, as a member of the shogunate, he treated the war wounded and sick in Aizu. After the war, he was briefly imprisoned, but was released in 1869. He then started serving at the Hyobusho (Army-Navy Ministry) and in 1873 became the first head of the Medical Division of the Army Ministry. Member of the House of Peers and danshaku (baron).

Publications

National Diet Library's collections

SNS

MATSUMOTO Ryojun

  • Portrait of MATSUMOTO Ryojun1
  • Portrait of MATSUMOTO Ryojun2