History

• Murai Kenboku, who already had a private school and a reputation and treated Hosokawa Shigekata
  Hosokawa Shigekata
  was a daimyo, 6th lord of Kumamoto of Hosokawa clan, noted for successful financial reform of Kumamoto Domain, for establishing Jishuukan Han school, Han Medical School Saishunkan and new ideas of criminal law.-Early life :...
  
   was ordered to build a school in 1756 at Kumamoto and the school was started in January 1757 at Nihongi. A botanical garden was started in 1756. The school was moved to Yamasaki (now Kon-ya imamachi) in 1771 and was discontinued in 1870 at Meiji restoration
  Meiji Restoration
  The , also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution, Reform or Renewal, was a chain of events that restored imperial rule to Japan in 1868...
  
  . Furushiro Medical School was started in Kumamoto Castle
  Kumamoto Castle
  is a hilltop Japanese castle located in Kumamoto in Kumamoto Prefecture. It was a large and extremely well fortified castle. The is a concrete reconstruction built in 1960, but several ancillary wooden buildings remain of the original castle. Kumamoto Castle is considered one of the three premier...
  
   in the same year. These were the forerunners of the Faculty of Medicine, Kumamoto University
  Kumamoto University
  is a university located in Kumamoto, Japan. It was established on May 31, 1949, at which time the following institutions were subsumed into it; Kumamoto Teachers College , Kumamoto Pharmaceutical College , The Fifth High School , Kumamoto Medical College , and Kumamoto Technical College ....
  
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Wall Motto by Nagaoka Naizen

• Medicine was started by Ki-oh(岐黄) who wrote a medical book and medicine is based on virtue
  Virtue
  Virtue is moral excellence. A virtue is a positive trait or quality subjectively deemed to be morally excellent and thus is valued as a foundation of principle and good moral being....
  
   or saving life, the central dogma of Japanese medicine. You must not select your patients by his rank, you must disregard the highness of fees. You must do your duties. Treatment should be based on science. Otherwise, do not rely on your transient luck. Respect your teachers.

Saishunkan Kaiyaku by Murai Kenboku

• You must know. The government begins a medical school and stores a number of books, hires professors and teaches students various lessons; in order to minimize death in early years and death by infectious diseases. This is great grace. You must get up early, study till midnight, study hard and broadly, you accomplish your duties, you must broaden your virtue
  Virtue
  Virtue is moral excellence. A virtue is a positive trait or quality subjectively deemed to be morally excellent and thus is valued as a foundation of principle and good moral being....
  
  . Do your best. Do not be lazy.

Students

• The first students numbered 239. They numbered 269 if official doctors and aged doctors were included.

Administration

• Under the school bugyo
  Bugyo
  ', often translated as "commissioner" or "magistrate" or "governor," was a title assigned to government officers in pre-modern Japan; other terms would be added to the title to describe more specifically a given commissioner's tasks or jurisdiction....
  
  , there were people,a school surveillance
  Surveillance
  Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner...
  
   man, a doctor surveillance
  Surveillance
  Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner...
  
   man, professors, surgeons and others.
  • Bugyo
    Bugyo
    ', often translated as "commissioner" or "magistrate" or "governor," was a title assigned to government officers in pre-modern Japan; other terms would be added to the title to describe more specifically a given commissioner's tasks or jurisdiction....
    
     (奉行), often translated as "commissioner" or "magistrate" or "governor," was a title assigned to government officers in pre-modern Japan; other terms would be added to the title to describe more specifically a given commissioner's tasks or jurisdiction.

Subjects and textbooks

• Internal medicine (Chinese medicine), surgery, ophthalmology, pediatrics, gynocology, oral medicine, acupuncture, acupressure were taught. In addition, anatomy and pharmacology were taught.
• Textbooks named 内経 was medicine in general.脈経 was diagonostics.病源候論 was symptomotology, 傷寒論 was a textbook of internal medicine. 甲乙経 meant acupuncture and acupressure. 本草綱目 was Chinese medicine vegetables and their use. Medicine changes according to age, and the notebooks of lectures were also made textbooks.

Examinations

• Examinations were performed, including surgery. Grading of doctors was made such as great doctor, good doctor, etc. In later years, western medicine was taught, and translation of Japanese to western language was tested.

Other medical schools

• There were other private medical schools in Kumamoto.