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From Nagasaki to Kyoto
Kasahara Hakuō, town doctor in Fukui domain
In Kasahara Hakuō had
His teacher in Kyoto had already received a bottle with a few cowpox scabs sent to him by Egawa Shirōhachi, an interpreter in Nagasaki who was involved in Hakuō’s plan. Hino Teisai had vaccinated children in Kyoto and was ready to transfer the vaccine to Hakuō. But only one of the eight scabs Teisai had received from Shirōhachi had been viable.
Upon learning of the arrival of the vaccine, Hakuō immediately departed for Nagasaki. Hakuō hoped for a more secure transfer from Kyoto to Fukui by relying on two vehicles at once: the bodies of children and a kind of glass container he had himself developed.
The first vehicle was a special container he had developed together with Hino Teisai's pupil Kiriyama Genchū: two matching rectangular plates of curved glass that could hold the pus between them.
