Philipp Franz von Siebold
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Jhr. Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician, botanist and traveller. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna. He was the father of the first female Japane
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Portrait of von Siebold by Kawahara Keiga, 1820s
Illustration made for von Siebold by Kawahara Keiga of the crab Carcinoplax longimana, 1820s
Pale-edged stingray by Kawahara for von Siebold, 1820s
Kusumoto Ine
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Kusumoto Ine was a Japanese physician. She was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan.
Philipp Franz von Siebold
…He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna. He was the father of the first female Japanese doctor educated in Western medicine, Kusumoto Ine. Born into a family of doctors and professors of medicine in Würzburg (then in the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, later part of Bavaria), von Siebold…
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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.