was opened in

Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries. The Hidden Christian Sites in the ...

city in 1989 in honour of

Philipp Franz von Siebold Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (17 February 1796 – 18 October 1866) was a German physician, botanist and traveler. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora (plants), flora and fauna (animals), fauna and the introduction of ...

's great contributions to the development of modern

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in Japan. The building is modeled on his former house in

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and is located next to the site of his original clinic and boarding school known as Narutaki Juku. The museum displays 206 items classified into six categories describing Von Siebold's six-year stay in Nagasaki, the so-called "Siebold incident", and his great life work on Japan. It also exhibits his

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and items about his beloved Japanese girlfriend Taki and their daughter Ine, who eventually became Japan's first female doctor.

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