Tashiro Sanki
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Tashiro Sanki (田代 三喜, 1465–1537) was a Japanese doctor of kampo and the founder of the Gosei-ha school of medicine. He was a teacher of Manase Dōsan.[1]
Tashiro studied abroad in China between 1487 and 1498, and returned to Japan with new ideas regarding medicine.[2] He promulgated the use of medicine for emotional disorders.[3]
Tashiro's workbooks were written in a cryptic style, using uncommon characters and terminology, in order to preserve the secrets of his school for initiates only.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Toshihiko Hamanaka; German E. Berrios (April 2003). 英文版・東西精神医学の二千年: 国際シンポジウムより. Gakuju Shoin, Publishers Lt. p. 121. ISBN 978-4-906502-25-7.
- ^ Charles M. Leslie (1998). Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 327. ISBN 978-81-208-1537-7.
- ^ Junko Kitanaka (2012). Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress. Princeton University Press. pp. 26–27. ISBN 0-691-14205-X.
- ^ Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan. BRILL. 12 September 2014. pp. 179–180. ISBN 978-90-04-27972-8.