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Kusumoto Ine

1827 - 1903

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Kusumoto Ine (楠本 イネ, 31 May 1827 – 27 August 1903; born Shiimoto Ine 失本 稲) was a Japanese physician. She was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kusumoto Ine has received more than 136,949 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kusumoto Ine is the 403rd most popular physician (down from 394th in 2019), the 861st most popular biography from Japan (up from 882nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Kusumoto Ine ranks 403 out of 502Before her are Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Zilda Arns, Wilhelm Stekel, Jim Yong Kim, and Paul Neumann. After her are Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, John Latham, Vladimir Filatov, Hiroshi Nakajima, and Bernard de Jussieu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Kusumoto Ine ranks 37Before her are Paul de Lagarde, Nikolai Severtzov, Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Prince Francis, Count of Trapani, Pierre Cuypers, and Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After her are Charles Wolf, Henri Ernest Baillon, Nikolay Beketov, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Goffredo Mameli, and Pierre Tirard. Among people deceased in 1903, Kusumoto Ine ranks 45Before her are Alexander Bain, Adrien Proust, Giuseppe Zanardelli, Charles Renouvier, Augusta Holmès, and Auguste Kerckhoffs. After her are Ozaki Kōyō, Karl Gegenbaur, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Harriet Lane, Tang Jingsong, and Lina Sandell.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kusumoto Ine ranks 861 out of 6,048Before her are Morihiro Saito (1928), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Keisuke Kinoshita (1912), Tomomi Seo (1950), Takizawa Bakin (1767), and Chiyonofuji Mitsugu (1955). After her are Tarō Kōno (1963), Norio Ohga (1930), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), Koichi Tohei (1920), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), and Tōson Shimazaki (1872).

Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Kusumoto Ine ranks 6Before her are Shirō Ishii (1892), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), and Tasuku Honjo (1942). After her are Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Hiraga Gennai (1728), Sunao Tawara (1873), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), and Shinobu Ishihara (1879).