Katsuragawa Hoshū

Katsuragawa Hoshū (1751-1809)(桂川甫周) was a Japanese physician and scholar of rangaku (Western studies). He served the Tokugawa shogunate as a physician, and as a Dutch translator.

Hoshū was appointed personal physician to the shogun in 1777, and began teaching at the shogunal school of medicine in 1794. He was one of a number of rangaku scholars who collaborated to translate a Dutch treatise on anatomy, producing the Kaitai Shinsho.