Raizō Ichikawa
Seishu Hanaoka (Unpei)
The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, "Tsusensan", some forty years before the better-known innovations of his American counterparts Long, Wells and Morton.
Hanaoka Seishu no tsuma
Seishu Hanaoka (Unpei)
Kae
Otsugi
Naomichi
Koriku
Kae's Mother
Okatsu
Kae's Wet Nurse
Sajibei
Ryoan Shimomura
Herbalist
Yonejiro
Kae's Grandfather
Yogen Yuasa
Merchant
Midwife
Director
