Kyoto Insane Asylum

Japanese: 京都癲狂院 - きょうとてんきょういん

Japan's first public psychiatric hospital. In 1875, Kyoto Prefecture planned to establish a psychiatric hospital as a way to improve the treatment of mentally ill people who relied on religious services at Iwakura Daiunji Temple. Akashi Hirotaka and others from Kyoto Prefectural Medical Hospital, with the cooperation of Higashiyama Tenka, former head priest of Zenrinji Temple, established a temporary insane asylum within the abbot's chambers of Nanzenji Temple to accommodate patients from Iwakura Daiunji Temple and other temples. The hospital opened on July 25th of the same year, with Majima Toshitami as its first director. However, due to financial difficulties, it closed in October 1882. [Kato Nobukatsu]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

日本最初の公立精神病院。1875年，京都府は岩倉大雲寺における加持祈禱に頼る精神障害者の治療法の改善の手段として，精神病院設置を計画した。京都府立療病院の明石博高らが，禅林寺前管長東山天華の協力を得て，南禅寺方丈内に仮癲狂院を設け，岩倉大雲寺等の患者を収容した。開院は同年7月25日で，初代院長に真島利民が就任した。しかし，経営難のため82年10月廃院となった。【加藤伸勝】

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