Inokichi Kubo
Kubo Inokichi (Japanese久保 猪 之 吉, born December 26, 1874 in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, † November 12, 1939 in Tokyo ) was a pioneer of Oto- Rhino-Laryngology ( Oto -Rhino- Laryngology ) and at the same time renowned poet ( waka, haiku ).
Life
Soon after entering high school in 1891 his interest grew in classical Japanese poetry with which he dealt under the guidance of Ochiai Naobumi. In 1896 he began the study of medicine at the School of Medicine of the Imperial University of Tokyo东京 帝国 大学 医科大学. In 1898 he published in the nationally distributed newspaper Yomiuri first tanka poems and founded the literary group Ikazuchi -kai. After graduating in 1901 he worked as an assistant under Professor Okada Waichiro. In May 1903 he married, in order to draw the following month to Freiburg ( Breisgau), where he deepened his knowledge under the pioneer of bronchoscopy Gustav Killian in the ear, nose and throat medicine on.
Immediately after his return to Japan, he was in January 1907 a professor at the School of Medicine, Fukuoka (京都 帝国 大学 福冈 医科大学, Kyoto Fukuoka teikokudaigaku ikadaigaku ) appointed. Here he founded the following month the Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine. In August he removed the first time in Japan, a foreign body from the trachea using a bronchoscope. 1911 up to now run as a branch school of Kyoto University School of Medicine Fukuoka was called " Imperial Kyushu University Medical School" (九州 帝国 大学 医科大学, Kyushu teikokudaigaku ikadaigaku ) independently. With the establishment of other faculties in 1911 it passed into the Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu Imperial University.
Kubo Inokichis woman Yorie came from Matsuyama, where she was greatly influenced in his early years by the famous poet Natsume Soseki. Her husband turned to this poem. Both were talking in Fukuoka a salon that attracted writers not only from Kyushu. In 1913 she founded the literary magazine ENIGMA (エニグマ). Published in 1922 Inokichi first haiku poems in the prestigious haiku journal Hototogisu ( = Gackelkuckuck ). One of his medical students, soda Kyosuke took part in these activities and stimulated, after he became director of a hospital in Kokura, by a similar literary salon the northeastern area of Kyushu.
At the same time Kubo made to the field of ear, nose and throat medicine international name. In 1913 he undertook a six-month trip to Europe, where he participated as a representative of Japan at the first International Congress of Oto -Rhino- Laryngology in Copenhagen. A second trip to Europe, followed in 1924. Ten years later by " his foreign friends ," wrote Festschrift for the sixtieth birthday contains a long list of renowned colleagues from around the world. In the same year he was awarded the highest French order, the Légion d' Honneur ( Legion of Honor ). In February 1935 he became Professor Emeritus. After that, he was a consultant in the Seiroka Hospital, founded by the American missionary doctor Rudolph Bolling Teusler 1902 ( St. Luke's Hospital ) in Tokyo worked, but died in 1939 and was buried at Aoyama Cemetery. His wife Yoshie and a half years later followed him at the age of 57 years.
Kubo Inokichi published 530 technical papers in Japanese and 42 in Western languages as well as a series of writings on the history of medicine, which was very close to his heart. For this purpose are 172 works of non-medical nature.
Kubo Museum
To mark the twentieth anniversary of the Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine donated by students Kubo Inokichi 1927, the " Kubo - Museum " ( Kubo Kinenkan ). The two-story building was erected on the site of the Medical Faculty of the University of Kyushu in a Japanese- Western mixed style. He took on the considerable number of devices, books, manuscripts, paintings from all areas of the Western and Eastern medicine, the Kubo himself had collected or received by colleagues from all countries. This was the first Japanese Museum of the History of Medicine. According to Kubo's death is a part of his estate as well as materials were added to the history of the Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine.
Also located on the medical campus of the University named after him Kubo Street (久保 通り, Kubo - dori ).