Qízhèng Fāng 奇正方
Formulas: Extraordinary and Regular by 賀谷壽 (Kayano Ju, Hègǔ Shòu, fl. late Edo, Japan)
About the work
A late-Edo Japanese formulary by Kayano Ju, a physician of the Ko-iho 古醫方 (“ancient-formulas”) school descended from Yoshimasu Tōdō 吉益東洞 (1702–1773; see 吉益為則 and KR3ed096 Lèijù fāng). The title term qízhèng (奇正, “irregular and orthodox”) is borrowed from the military classics — the Sūnzǐ bīngfǎ 孫子兵法 distinction between zhèngbīng (orthodox formations) and qíbīng (extraordinary, surprise tactics) — and is characteristic of the Edo Ko-iho school’s reading of fāngjìxué (formulary studies) as a tactical art. The zhèngfāng are Zhāng Zhòngjǐng’s canonical formulas in the Shānghán and Jīnguì; the qífāng are the extraordinary or supplementary prescriptions devised for cases that the canonical formulas do not cover.
Prefaces
The digital source is only a file header — the actual text body is missing from the deposit. No preface or body content is available within the corpus.
Abstract
The work is poorly documented. The catalog entry gives author 日本·賀谷壽 (Kayano Ju) with no dynasty bracketing. The Ko-iho doctrinal position and the qízhèng title place the work within the Yoshimasu Tōdō lineage of the mid-to-late Edo period (ca. 1750–1850), since the qí / zhèng contrast is one of Tōdō’s signature theoretical devices (cf. his Hōki 方機 and Rui-jū hō 類聚方, see KR3ed096, KR3ed097). Without preface or body the dating cannot be tightened further than this wide bracket. Kayano Ju does not appear in the principal Edo medical biographical dictionaries; he is known only from the title-line of this work.
Note: the digital source being a header-only stub, the entry here is anchored on the title, author, and school-affiliation alone; no internal textual evidence is available.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.
Links
- See 賀谷壽 for the limited biographical record.
- For the Ko-iho / Yoshimasu Tōdō school context see KR3ed096 Lèijù fāng and KR3ed097 Fāngjī.
- 奇正方 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB