[Concerning the personal history of Jutokuin-Genyu]

Jutokuin-Genyu studied medicine under Dohsan-I when he was young. He lived at Shinzaike in Kyoto and, as the Manase's fellow pupil, he exchanged visits and elegantly associated with upper-class people. During that time he complied medical books, wrote, served the Edo Shogunate as a physician, and also went to Kagoshima. In his last years he was granted a rank of Ingoh, Hoh-in. He died on April 3, 1644 (the 21st year of the Kan-ei period). His age at death is unknown, though it appears that he was considerably long-lived, since his death was half a century after his teacher, Dohsan, who died in 1594 (the third year of the Bunroku period). His grave is at the Ryuh-un-in temple at Edo. His wife was once Shojun Kohtokuin's widow. Genjun, who afterward succeeded to the Jutoku-in family and became the second generation thereof, came from the Kohtoku-in family.