Japanese woodblock print book on Chinese Medicine (Juyon Keiraku Hatsugun).
According to scholar Peter Kornicki, “This is volume 5 of Jūshi keiraku hakki wage ‘The fourteen bodily tracts explained in Japanese’.
This is a Japanese commentary on the Shisijing fahui published in 1693 by Kosaji Han’emon of Kyoto. The commentary was compiled by Okamoto Ippō (1686-1754), who started as a student of medicine under Ajioka Sanpaku but offended his teacher and was expelled from his school. He subsequently made a career for himself as a popularizer and disseminator of medical knowledge, and he went on to publish a large number of medical works aimed at a popular market. He is said to have ceased writing such works when his elder brother, the famous dramataist Chikamatsu Monzaemon, warned him that he was in danger of doing harm by peddling inexact knowledge.”
This collection houses art and artifacts from China, Ethiopia, India and Japan.
