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Portrait or photograph of Sugita Genpaku: Japanese physician and scholar Sugita Genpaku.

Virtual Memorial

Sugita Genpaku

A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Sugita Genpaku, remembered for Rangaku medicine, Kaitai Shinsho, Japanese medical history.

1733 - 1817Tokyo, Japan
Portrait or photograph of Sugita Genpaku: Sugita Genpaku Memorial Obama Municipal Hospital in Obama, Fukui prefecture, Japan
Sugita Genpaku Memorial Obama Municipal Hospital in Obama, Fukui prefecture, Japan 663highland, Own work, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Sugita Genpaku Is Remembered

Sugita Genpaku is remembered for rangaku medicine, kaitai shinsho, japanese medical history. This public page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why this figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive account, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Sugita Genpaku.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

Tokyo, Japan is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial hall because it is connected to Sugita Genpaku's story, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Sugita Genpaku was a Japanese physician and scholar known for his translation of Kaitai Shinsho and a founder of Rangaku and Ranpō in Japan. He was one of the first Japanese scholars in Edo to study the Dutch language and is credited with being one of the first Japanese physicians to study Western medical teachings in Japan.

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

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Portrait or photograph of Sugita Genpaku: This is a drawing of Japanese physician and scholar Sugita Genpaku (1733-1817)

This is a drawing of Japanese physician and scholar Sugita Genpaku (1733-1817)

Emma Dyer (took photograph) Author of the text in which the drawing is found is Norton Willis Whitney, Notes on the History of Medical Progress in Japan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Work or historical image connected to Sugita Genpaku: Kaitai Shinsyo is a Japanese first medical textbook (on European medical technology), late Edo Period , pu

Kaitai Shinsyo is a Japanese first medical textbook (on European medical technology), late Edo Period , published on 1774. This textbook is owned and exhibited at The Center for Re

Sugita Genpaku / Nakagawa Jun'an / Maeno Ryōtaku, 佐賀大学地域学歴史文化研究センター, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Work or historical image connected to Sugita Genpaku: Kaitai Shinsyo is a Japanese first medical textbook (on European medical technology), late Edo Period , pu

Kaitai Shinsyo is a Japanese first medical textbook (on European medical technology), late Edo Period , published on 1774. This textbook is owned and exhibited at The Center for Re

Sugita Genpaku / Nakagawa Jun'an / Maeno Ryōtaku, 佐賀大学地域学歴史文化研究センター, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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