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. According to the generational tale by Fujita family, and historian Akira Haruta, Shosai Fujita, first-born son of Tangaku Fujita (formerly Tangaku Kageyama), known by pen name as Ei or Hideshige, saved the life of one of Japan's most famous samurai, and revolutionary Meiji hero, Sakamoto Ryoma. After Sakamoto Ryoma united the Choshu and Satsuma clans, against #TokugawaYoshinobu , he was attacked at the Teradaya Hotel in Fushimi, Kyoto. The hotel is located