My Ancestor: Dr. Shosai Fujita and Ryoma Sakamoto

My ancestor, Shosai Fujita, was a doctor who performed surgery on Sakamoto Ryoma, a Confucian scholar, and an advisor to Tokugawa Nariaki.

Shosai’s teacher was famous Confucian scholar Koga Douan/Touan of Saga, Japan. And one of his students was Confucian, Tokutaro Nakamura, friend of poet Hirosei Gyokuso.

His grave is in the Gekkyoin Buddhist temple created by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, directly below Emperor Suko’s family graves in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto. The property belongs to the Fushimi No Miya Royal Imperial family today.