Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf “Shinkyu goun sanjutsu sho” “Five Aspects and Three Techniques of Acupuncture and Moxibustion”

by Acupuncture, Moxibustion

$2,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Two brush & ink drawings in the text. 89 folding leaves. 8vo 190 x 127 mm. , orig. wrappers wrappers somewhat frayed , orig. stitching. Japan?: mid-Edo . A most interesting and extensive manuscript on acupuncture and moxibustion, divided into seven parts. Based on WorldCat and Kyoto University’s manuscript with the same title, we can attribute the authorship of these texts to Chishin Tanaka, a physician of the early Edo period. The

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