Inokichi Kubo
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Inokichi Kubo (久保 猪之吉, Kubo Inokichi, 26 December 1874 - 12 November 1939) was a Japanese pioneer of otorhinolaryngology and professor at Fukuoka Medical School (now part of Kyushu University).
He graduated from The Medical School of Tokyo Imperial University (東京帝国大学医科大学, Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku Ika Daigaku) in 1900, and went on an overseas study program to Gustav Killian in Freiburg (Breisgau, Germany) in 1903. Four years later he returned to Japan, where he took up the post of professor at Fukuoka Medical School.
His wife, Yorie (より江), was a haiku poet from Matsuyama. As Kubo was a well-known poet too, their home in Fukuoka soon became the social center for poets in Northern Kyushu.
He was attending doctor of Setsu Nagatsuka.[clarification needed][1] Kubo was one of the pioneers of otorhinolaryngology in Japan, and was selected as a representative of his country for the first International Congress of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology at Copenhagen (1913). In 1934 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
Kubo was famous for his Haiku- and Waka-poetry, and became a pupil of Naobumi Ochiai. As a poet he found a mentor in Naobumi Ochiai, with Saishu Onoe formed Ikazuchi kai, and created friendship with Byakuren Yanagihara.[clarification needed] After it he started the study of Haiku and was a pupil of Kyoshi Takahama.
There is a small museum at Kyushu University honouring his achievements.
References
- Biography published by Nishi-Nippon City Bank Retrieved 30 May 2010. Template:Ja icon
- Biography published by Nihonmatsu City Retrieved 30 May 2010. Template:Ja icon
- Kyushu University information Retrieved 30 May 2010. Template:Ja icon
- Wolfgang Michel, The Kubo Memorial Building - The first Japanese Museum for Medical History, Centennial Publication of the Department for Otorhinolaryngology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 2009, pp. 143-149.(pdf Kyushu University Institutional Repository) Template:Ja icon