Shānghán lùn gāng yào 傷寒論綱要
Outline Essentials of the Treatise on Cold Damage by 橘南谿 (Tachibana Nankei / Jú Nánxī, 1753–1805, 江戶)
About the work
A short late-Edo commentary on the Shānghán lùn in one juan, by the Kyōto physician and travel writer Tachibana Nankei 橘南谿 (Jú Nánxī). The text follows the standard six-conformation arrangement (Biàn tàiyáng bìng etc.), interleaving interlinear parenthetical commentary that interprets each canonical clause in terms of yángqì presence/absence at the boundary layers (biǎo 表 / lǐ 裡), the rate of progression, and the zhōufángshījǐng 周防失警 logic of failure modes.
Abstract
Composition window 1780–1805 is bracketed by Nankei’s clinical practice in Kyōto. Nankei was a pupil of 吉益東洞 Yoshimasu Tōdō (the founder of the kohō-ha 古方派 ancient-formula school) and his Shānghán commentary belongs broadly to the kohō tradition that emphasizes the direct application of Shānghán and Jīnguì formulae as Japanese clinical canon. Its distinctive feature is the systematic correlation of canonical clauses to a binary yáng / yīn logic of disease-stage progression — a more austerely physiological interpretation than the cosmological-correlative readings of the Héjiān school commentators.
The work is brief (one juan) and was overshadowed by Nankei’s two famous travel collections (Saiyū-ki 西遊記 and Tōyū-ki 東遊記), which are the principal vehicles of his literary reputation. The medical work has nonetheless circulated in modern Japanese reprintings and in Chinese-medicine collectanea as one of the more philosophically articulate Edo Shānghán commentaries.
Translations and research
- Hattori Toshirō 服部敏良 has written on the kohō-ha clinical tradition in which Nankei worked.
- No substantial English-language treatment of the medical work located.
Links
- See KR3ef001 (parent Shānghán lùn).
- 傷寒論綱要 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB