Daidoji, Keiko (Author)
This paper examines how the Shanghanlun, translated as the Treatise on Cold Damage (i.e., the Treatise), one of the most revered Chinese medical texts of the Han dynasty, was used in Japanese traditional medicine (Kanp ), and particularly how it was reconfigured to fit with the societal shifts of the Edo period in Japan. The versatility of the Treatisein the formation of Kanp is exemplified by the medicine of Yoshimasu T d , an innovative eighteenth-century Japanese doctor. In this analysis of T d 's unique interpretation of the Treatise, some of his transitional ideas about medicine, the human body, and illness, as well as the transcultural influence from China, will be elucidated. To this end, first T d 's application of the Treatisewill be re-defined within the historical context of changing medical needs in the consumer society of the Edo period. Secondly, by focusing on the idea of poison that forms the core of T d 's theory and practice, I show how his pathology resonated with the period's popular notions of the human body and illness, although it was said at the time to be drawn from Chinese classics. Associating T d 's use of the Treatise with such phenomena as the commercialisation and popularisation of medical treatment and the popular imagination of illness, I show the applicability of the Treatiseto the evolution of Kanp in the context of the surrounding social structure and cross-cultural intellectual ebb and flow across East Asia.
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