Medical school - Igakukan

A traditional Chinese medicine school in the Edo period. In 1765 (Meiwa 2), Taki Mototaka invested his own money to establish the school under the name Seijukan, a private school. He created a curriculum and compiled it in the Medical School Management Record and the 100-Day Education Record, and worked to educate students. Seijukan was destroyed in the Great Edo Fire in 1772 (An'ei 1), and Gentoku, Mototaka's son, established it as a national school in 1791 (Kansei 3) with the support of the 11th shogun, Tokugawa Ienari, and changed its name to Medical School. Since then, his sons Yuan Jian, Yuan Tane, Yuan Jian, and Yuan Xin have managed the medical school as successive governors, and have worked to promote medical education as a school of historical research, reprinting works such as "The Records of Shengji," "The Records of Qianjin," and "The Records of Medical Science," and publishing many other works over the generations, and have compiled a collection of academic books on Japanese herbal medicine.Their achievements are highly regarded in China today.

[Michiaki Yakazu]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

江戸時代の漢方医学校。1765年（明和2）多紀元孝(たきもとたか)が、私財を投じて私学躋寿館(せいじゅかん)と称して発足、元孝は教育課程を創案して『医学館経営記』『百日教育記』にまとめ、子弟の育成にあたった。躋寿館は1772年（安永1）江戸の大火で類焼し、元孝の子元悳(げんとく)は1791年（寛政3）第11代将軍徳川家斉(いえなり)の援助を得て官立とし、名を医学館と改めた。以来その子元簡(もとやす)、元胤(もとたね)、元堅(もとかた)、元昕(もとあき)累代医学館督事として運営にあたり、考証学派としての医育事業と、『聖済総録(せいざいそうろく)』『千金方(せんきんほう)』『医心方(いしんほう)』などの復刻事業、また代々多くの著述を刊行し、日本漢方医学の学術書の集大成を行った。その成果は今日、中国においても高く評価されている。

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