Kusumoto Ine was a Japanese physician. She was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan.
Kusumoto Ine
Arrival of a Dutch Ship by Kawahara Keiga, depicting Ine, Taki, and Siebold at Dejima
Portrait of Ine's mother Kusumoto Taki, c. 1830s
The feudal lord Date Munenari was a patron of Ine's and of Western learning.
Philipp Franz von Siebold
Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician, botanist and traveller. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna and the introduction of Western medicine in Japan. He was the father of the first female Japanese doctor educated in Western medicine, Kusumoto Ine.
Philipp Franz von Siebold
Portrait of Siebold by Kawahara Keiga, 1820s
Illustration made for Siebold by Kawahara Keiga of the crab Carcinoplax longimana, 1820s
Pale-edged stingray by Kawahara for Siebold, 1820s