Ikutaro Tokoro was a doctor practicing Western medicine and a patriot in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate.
18 Facts About Ikutaro Tokoro
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Ikutaro Tokoro is well known as the doctor who saved the life of Inoue Kaoru, who was severely wounded by would-be assassins.
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Ikutaro Tokoro, formerly Ikutaro Yabashi, was a doctor practicing Western medicine and a patriot in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Ikutaro Tokoro was born in Akasaka-juku in 1838 as the 4th son of Mataichi Yabashi.
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Later this "Yabashi" family had to moved out of the homeland because Ikutaro became a supporter of the doctrine of restoring the emperor.
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At the age of 11 Ikutaro became the son-in-law of Iori Tokoro who had to move out of the homeland for the very same reason.
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Ikutaro Tokoro had the reputation of being a brilliant student and enjoyed the companionship of Fukuzawa Yukichi, Omura Masujiro and so on.
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Ikutaro Tokoro became the head of the Kyoto Residence of Choshu Domain upon the recommendation of Katsura Kogoro.
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In 1864 Ikutaro Tokoro succeeded in saving the life of Inoue Kaoru by sewing about 50 stitches of tatami needle in the wounds on the whole body without anesthesia because of emergency during the domestic war time.
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Immediately Ikutaro Tokoro tucked up the sleeves of kimono with a tasuki, cleaned the wounds with shochu and began to suture the wounds with the small tatami needle.
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Ikutaro Tokoro died of typhoid in camp at the age of 27.
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Ikutaro Tokoro was enshrined in Kyoto Ryozen Gokoku Shrine in 1869.
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Ikutaro Tokoro was awarded the title of ju shi-i no ge by the recommendation of Inoue Kaoru, Shinagawa Yajiro and so on.
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Inoue Kaoru rehabilitated the extinct family, the Tokoros, by bringing up Ikutaro's nephew from the family, the Yabashis, where Ikutaro was born, whose name was Minokichi Yabashi, in Inoue's residence at Torii-Zaka, Tokyo.
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The Statue of Ikutaro Tokoro was built in Akasaka-juku where he was born.
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Alongside the statue of Inoue Kaoru in Yudaonsen there is the monument to honor Ikutaro Tokoro which says as follows.
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Ikutaro Tokoro saved the life of dying Inoue Kaoru miraculously.
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On New Year's day in 1865 when Takasugi Shinsaku raised an army and fought with Zokuron-to, a pro-Bakufu power, Ikutaro Tokoro was honorarily received as staff officer of Yugekitai and cooperated with Takasugi.