| Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War Subjects: Medicine -- Japan -- Early works to 1800; Medicine Chinese -- Japan -- Early works to 1800; Kajiwara Seizen ca. 1265–ca. 1337. Man’anpo; Kajiwara Seizen ca. 1265–ca. 1337. Ton’isho; Confluences of Medicine is the first book-length exploration in English of issues of medicine and society in premodern Japan. This multifaceted study weaves a rich tapestry of Buddhist healing practices, Chinese medical knowledge, Asian pharmaceuticals, and Islamic formulas as it elucidates their appropriation and integration into medieval Japanese medicine. It expands the parameters of the study of medicine in East Asia, which to date has focused on the subject in individual countries, and introduces the dynamics of interaction and exchange that coursed through the East Asian macro-culture. |