With the country slowly opening up to foreign influence, the study of rangaku--imported knowledge from the Netherlands--provided by be a source of inspiration that would result in major revolutions in Japanese medicine. And at the center of it all was the medicine-minded cat, Sugita Genpaku!
Why didn't Ryotaku-sensei 
want his name in the book?
¿Por qué el maestro Ryotaku
no quiso su nombre en el libro?
Por que será que o Ryoutaku-sensei
não quis colocar seu nome no livro?