Inokichi Kubo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese otorhinolaryngologist; professor at Fukuoka Medical School
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Place of Birth: Nihommatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
About Inokichi Kubo
- Inokichi Kubo (?? ???, 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 (??????????, Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku Ika Daigaku) in 1900, and went on an overseas study program to Gustav Killian at University of Freiburg in 1903.
- Four years later he returned to Japan, where he took up the post of professor at Fukuoka Medical School. His wife, Yorie (???), 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 while attracting poets and novelists from afar. One of his patient was Takashi Nagatsuka the poet. 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, started as a pupil of Kyoshi Takahama.
- As a poet he found a mentor in Naobumi Ochiai, with Saishu Onoe formed Ikazuchi kai, and created friendship with Byakuren Yanagihara.
- In February 1913, Kubo began publishing a magazine "Enigma" (??????) for his circle of poets and haiku.
- It was in its May issue that Byakuren Yanagihara contributed her work "Hitou" (????) (Himomo, peach flowers in bright pink), and in the same issue, Kubo and his wife also published their workes as well; Inokichi "Aruto Haideruberuku ni tsuite" (??????????????????) (Thinking about 'Alt-Heidelberg') and Yorie "Tsukushi kudari" (??????) (Sailing down Tsukushi river).There is a small museum at Kyushu University honouring his achievements.
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