학술논문
A Provisional Inventory of Documents Related to Akashi Hiroakira, donated by Mr. Akashi Hiroomi to the Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives / 京都府立京都学・歴彩館所蔵 明石博臣氏寄贈明石博高関係資料仮目録
Document Type
Journal Article
Author
Source
近世京都 / KINSEI KYOTO. 2023, 6:119
Subject
Language
Japanese
ISSN
2188-6709
2435-4945
2435-4945
Abstract
A physician by training, Akashi Hiroakira (1839-1910, pseudonym Seiran) was a pioneer of Kyoto modernization. While working as a bureaucrat in Kyoto Prefecture in the early Meiji period, he spearheaded the establishment of the Kyoto Seimikyoku 舎密局 (Kyoto Chemical Bureau) and the Kyoto Ryōbyō-in 療病院 (Kyoto Hospital). The first published biography of Akashi was A Short Biography of Seiran Ō Akashi Hiroakira 静瀾翁明石 博高略伝 (1916, private edition) written by his son, Akashi Atsuaki. Later, Atsuaki provided a series of Wagener’s chemical lectures at the Seimikyoku, which had been compiled by his father Hiroakira, for use in the Biography of Dr. Gottfried Wagener, edited by Ueda Toyokitsu (Hakurankai Shuppan Kyōkai, 1925).