Ōmori Harutoyo

Ōmori Harutoyo was a Japanese surgeon, born in Edo in 1852 and died in 1912, who became the first president of the Fukuoka Medical College, founded in 1903 as a branch of the medical faculty of Kyoto University and now the Faculty of Medicine of Kyushu University. He grew up in the Kaminoyama domain in Dewa province, today Yamagata prefecture, where his father Ōmori Kaishun served as physician to the local lord. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1879 and took a post at the newly established Fukuoka Medical School in the same year. When that school closed in 1888 he was appointed the first director of the Fukuoka Prefectural Hospital. He is recorded as having performed the first cesarean operation in Japan, and he laid the foundation of the medical faculty at Kyushu University before retiring in 1909. He died of kidney trouble and was buried at Sofuku-ji temple next to the medical campus.