Taki Mototaka was a very well-regarded physician of Japan who practiced in the middle of the Edo period. His birth date was 1695 and he was born in Edo (currently known as Musashi). His original family was from Fukushima. Taki’s was adopted by Kaneyasu Motoen and the household of the family leadership he got under him at the age of 32 in 1727, after his adoptive father’s retirement. Mototaka started working as a house physician in 1735.
The year after he joined the medical service of the Tokugawa family under the patronage of Gekkin. By 1747 he was in a higher position as a Nishimaru Okuishi and was appointed as a physician to the Tokugawa family. He got an increase in his stipend from 100 to 200 koku and the honorific title Hgen was also given to him. After the death of his adoptive father in 1749, he gave the family name the name “Taki”.
In 1754 he was sent to the prince Kjump who was suffering and followed the prince to Nikk. By setting up a private medical school in Edo in the Kanda district called Seijukan in May 1765, Mototka began to actively develop a network in the medical field. It became known later on as the Igakukan and was devoted to the education in the area of kamp – a traditional Chinese medicine practice. He became the most important figure of this medical art not only within but also outside his home country after his work in this school and at his own private practice.
Mototaka passed away on 26 July 1766, still in Edo. The plot at Jkan-ji temple where Taki’s family has its burial ground is the place where his ashes rest today.
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