Person1733 – 1817
Sugita Genpaku
Edo-period physician and Dutch-learning scholar who, with Maeno Ryōtaku and others, translated a Dutch anatomy book and published the New Text on Anatomy in 1774
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Dutch learning (rangaku) — Western knowledge acquired through the Dutch post at Dejima — took root in Japan, and in 1774 Sugita Genpaku and others published the New Text on Anatomy (Kaitai shinsho), translated from a Dutch anatomy book.
Themes this person appears in
- Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800
The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning