Fig. 2

Einosuke Harada (1892–1946). Einosuke Harada was born in 1892 in Amakusa, on Kyushu Island, in Southern Japan. He married the daughter of the head of a notorious eye hospital, the Hara Eye Clinic, in Nagasaki. After training as an internist, and working for the army, Harada then reoriented his training towards ophthalmology, from 1923 to 1925 at Tokyo Imperial University. In 1923, he published the first “Harada” case, described as “acute diffuse choroiditis”. In 1926, he wrote his main article on five cases, which included the previously described case, and thus, contributed his name to the present eponym of the disease. Essentially, he described the posterior features of VKH disease. He worked in the Hara Eye Clinic in Nagasaki until 1943, when he was drafted by the army to the battlefront in the Philippines. From there, he was sent home, due to illness. His clinic was destroyed by the atomic bomb. He was planning to rebuild it but succumbed to illness in December 1946. He is buried in his hometown of Amakusa, south of Nagasaki. To the right of his portrait, the title page of his 1926 article is shown; it was published in Nippon Ganka Gakkai Zashii