I don't know if you have read the Japanese manga "Galaxy Railway 999" and "Space Battleship Yamato"? It is said that the characters Metil and Stasha are based on Takako Kusunoki.
Galaxy Railway 999 by Maetier
"Space Battleship Yamato" Stasha
Complicated origin: the second generation of Japanese-German mixed blood
Takako Kusumoto was born in 1852 in what is now Nagasaki, Japan, and was the second generation of Japanese-German descent.
- maternal grandfather Philippe Franz von Siebold
Her grandfather, Philippe Franz von Siebold, was German and quite famous in Japan.
Siebold was born into a family of doctors in Bielburg, Bavaria, Germany, and studied medicine, botany, zoology, geography and other fields at university and obtained degrees.
In 1822, Siebold became a medical officer for the Dutch East India Company and went to Java in 1823, but was soon sent to Japan, arriving in Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1823. Initially, he only conducted medical treatment and teaching in the interior of the Dutch Comptossia and private schools in the city, but the following year, with permission from the Nagasaki government, he built a teaching building in the suburban area of Narataki. Siebold treated patients here, taught in various fields including medicine, trained many medical talents for Japan, and introduced Japanese customs to Europe after returning to Europe.
Siebold
- The birth mother, Nanmoto Dao, is a pioneer of Japanese female Western medicine
While in Nagasaki, Siebold and the wandering daughter Nanmoto Kifan gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, who was Nanmoto Inao, Kusumoto's biological mother.
When Nanmoto was two years old, his biological father, Siebold, was accused by the Japanese authorities of being a spy and expelled from Japan. When Nanmoto grew up, she studied medicine under her biological father's student Keisaku Ninomiya, and later studied obstetrics with Ishii Muneken, and was the first Western-style female obstetrician doctor in Japan.
According to the current words, Nan Bendao is an inspirational heroine. The birth mother is a wandering girl, in fact, a prostitute. The illegitimate daughter of foreigners and prostitutes was discriminated against in any era, and her father left Japan when she was two years old, but she was able to seize her father's contacts in Japan and study medicine under her father's students, becoming Japan's first female gynecologist.
Nanmoto later opened a maternity hospital in Tokyo, and at the age of 47, she was one of the doctors present when Emperor Meiji's lateral chamber Mitsuko gave birth.
Before the advent of Nanmoto, midwifery was of low status, and Kusumoto, as a pioneer in learning Western medicine, offered more possibilities for Japanese women's career development.
But unfortunately, Kusumoto himself was later raped by Ishii Muneken and gave birth to Kusumoto Takako Kusumoto alone, and Kusumoto himself never married.
Nanmoto rice
- Takako Kusumoto
Unlike her biological mother, who has a strong sense of mixed race, Takako Kusumoto is an oriental beauty who grew up with her maternal grandmother. When she was young, she was passionate about guzheng, shamisen, dance and other skills, which disappointed her mother, who had expected her to grow up to be a doctor.
Photo of Takako Kusumoto
In 1866, Takako Kusumoto married Mise Zhubuchi. Mitsse was a physician under his maternal grandfather, Siebold, and nephew of Keisaku Ninomiya. There were no children between the two, and after the death of Mitsejibuchi in 1877, Takako Kusumoto studied obstetrics and gynecology with her half-brother Nobuyoshi Ishii.
However, during this time, Takako Kusumoto suffered misfortune like her mother, and was raped by the doctor Shigeaki Katagiri during a boat ride and gave birth to a boy.
Takako Kusumoto eventually gave up practicing medicine. Later, she remarried to the doctor Yasuke Yamazaki and had a son and a daughter, and her husband Yasuke Yamazaki died 7 years after the marriage.
After that, Takako Kusumoto moved to Tokyo to live with her mother, Nanmoto Ina, and made a living teaching a craft that she had been passionate about as a child.