Ine Kusuomto

Tokugawa Clan and Kanada Medical School

Born to a German physician and Japanese courtesan, she's been met with discrimination her whole life, but had learned to ignore it in pursuit of the sciences. Her intellect and strong will pushes her to exhaust all means to save those who come into her care. She was the daughter of Kusumoto Taki, who was a courtesan from Nagasaki; and the German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold, who worked on Dejima, an island foreigners were restricted to during Japan's long period of seclusion from the world. Ine was also known as O-Ine and later in life took the name Itoku (伊篤). In Japanese she is often called Oranda O-Ine ("Dutch O-Ine") for her association with Dejima and its Dutch-language Western learning.

Siebold was banished from Japan in 1829 but managed to provide for Ine and her mother and arranged for his students and associates to care for them. Ine's reputation grew after she became a doctor of Western medicine, and she won the patronage of the feudal lord Date Munenari. She studied in various parts of Japan under numerous teachers.

Caring, Loving, Motherly, Serious

Doctor

First Female Doctor of western medicine in Japan.

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Kanada Medical School in Edo, Japan