Nakachi Kijin information

Nakachi Pekumi Kijin (仲地 親雲上 紀仁, 3 February 1789 – 7 April 1859) was a scholar-bureaucrat, physician and surgeon of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. He was the first surgeon on Okinawa to give vaccinations against cowpox.

It was standard at the time for members of Ryūkyū's aristocratic class to have two names: a Chinese style name (唐名, Karana) and a Japanese style name (大和名, Yamatona). "Nakachi Kijin" was his Japanese style name, while Shō Keishin (松 景愼) was his Chinese style name.