Koganei Yoshikiyo

Koganei Yoshikiyo

Koganei Yoshikiyo (小金井 良精, 1859-1944) was a Japanese anatomist and anthropologist of the Meiji era.

A child of an "Echigo Nagaoka" clansman, he graduated from East School [nihongo|East school|大学東校|"Daigaku Tōkō", which was the school existed in "Meiji" era in Japan.] , the precursor of the Tokyo Imperial University medical school, in 1880. He then went to Germany where he learned anatomy and histology. He returned to Japan in 1885, and in the following year he was appointed a professor at Tokyo Imperial University Medical School, becoming the first Japanese lecturer on anatomy in the school.

After studying Ainu skeletons in 1888, he began working in anthropology. Citing the results of his Ainu research, he argued that prehistoric man was included among Ainu.

From 1893 to 1896, he served as the Imperial University medical college president, and in 1893 he established Japanese Association of Anatomists. In 1921, he retired from academia but continued his research.

His wife was Koganei Kimiko, an essayist, poet and younger sister of writer Mori Ōgai. A statue of Koganei Yoshikiyo is owned by the University of Tokyo. Hoshi Hajime, the founder of pharmaceutical company Hoshi Seiyaku, was his son-in-law, and Hoshi Shinichi, the science fiction novelist, was his grandchild.

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