The Koishikawa Yojosho was a Japanese hospital located in Koishikawa, Edo, in what is now the

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municipality of the

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of modern Japan. The hospital was established in 1722 by the shōgun Tokugawa Yoshimune in the herb gardens of what is now the Koishikawa Botanical Gardens at the suggestion of the town physician Ogawa Shosen. The hospital offered its services only to the

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. It was eventually merged into

Tokyo University The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

's medical school.

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Defunct hospitals in Japan 1722 establishments in Japan Edo {{japan-hospital-stub