Katsuragawa Hoshū was a Japanese physician and scholar of rangaku. He served the Tokugawa shogunate as a physician and as a translator of Dutch. He was the older brother of author and rangaku scholar Morishima Chūryō.
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About this person
Country
JapanCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1751 to 1809 · aged 58
Written about in
8 languages
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