Shānghán zhī yánjiū 傷寒之研究
Researches into Cold Damage by 中西惟忠 (Nakanishi Iyū / Zhōngxī Wéizhōng, zì Shēnsì 深泗, hào Tànzhāi 探齋, 1724–1803, 江戶)
About the work
A ten-juan late-Edo koihō-school commentary on the Shānghán lùn by the Kyoto physician 中西惟忠 Nakanishi Iyū (1724–1803). Nakanishi was a senior figure of the second-generation koihō movement, a student of 吉益東洞 Yoshimasu Tōdō’s school in Kyoto. The work — preface 1789 — presents the Shānghán materials reorganized along the koihō clinical-pragmatic line: emphasis on the prescriptive logic (方 fāng), de-emphasis of Sùwèn-derived doctrinal apparatus, and clinical pragmatism above textual restoration.
Abstract
The composition window 1789–1812 reflects the printed publication in 1789 and Nakanishi’s continuing editorial activity to about 1812 (he died in 1803, but the work was reprinted with editorial revisions by his disciples). The work is a representative second-generation koihō response to the orthodox Shānghán commentarial tradition: Nakanishi systematically rejects Sòng-period and JīnYuán doctrinal accretions and re-presents the canonical text as a clinical formulary keyed directly to specific symptomatic complexes. The work circulated in the Qīng through the late-19th-century Japanese-philological wave (via 楊守敬 Yáng Shǒujìng) but never achieved the mainstream influence of 丹波元簡 Tamba no Mototane’s Jí yì (KR3ef018).
Translations and research
- Ōtsuka Yasuo 大塚恭男, Edo-ki no igaku (Tokyo: Sōbun-sha, 1981).
- No substantial Western-language secondary literature located.
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- 傷寒之研究 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB