Xīnkè Huà Tuó nèizhào tú 新刻華佗內照圖
A Newly-Cut Edition of Huà Tuó’s Inner-Reflection Diagrams nominally attributed to 華佗 Huà Tuó (c. 145 – 208, Hàn-dynasty Pèiguó 沛國 physician); edited and printed by 胡文煥 Hú Wénhuàn (zì Défǔ 德甫, c. 1539–1611, late-Míng Hángzhōu publisher).
About the work
A late-Míng pseudepigraphic anatomical-visceral-diagram work falsely attributed to Huà Tuó, edited and printed by the prolific late-Wàn-lì Hángzhōu publisher Hú Wénhuàn as part of his great Gézhì cóngshū 格致叢書 series (printed Wànlì 31 / 1603). The original Wànlì edition is 1 juǎn (preserved in the Naikaku Bunko 内閣文庫 of Japan); the 1711 Hōei 寶永 8 Japanese reprint preserved in the Kyōto University Fujikawa 富士川 Collection is 2 juǎn.
The work belongs to a recurring late-Imperial pseudepigraphic genre: works titled “Huà Tuó nèizhào 華佗內照” repeatedly appear in the MíngQīng bibliographic record, each claiming to recover the legendary anatomical drawings Huà Tuó had supposedly made before his execution under Cáo Cāo (the Sānguó zhì legend). None descend from Huà Tuó himself; they are early-modern compilations using Huà Tuó as an authoritative cover. The diagrams represent characteristic late-Míng visualisations of zàngfǔ anatomy and channel-and-collateral routing.
The work is one of two principal late-Imperial Huà Tuó nèizhào recensions in the hxwd repatriation: this Hú Wénhuàn version (1603, KR3er125), and the slightly later or contemporary Xuánmén màijué nèizhào tú (KR3er119).
Prefaces
The hxwd _001.txt is header-only and does not transcribe the body or Hú Wénhuàn’s editorial paratext. External reproductions are available through the Kyōto Univ. RMDA digital archive.
Abstract
The 1603 Wànlì 31 dating is established by the Gézhì cóngshū publication record. Hú Wénhuàn (c. 1539 – 1611), a Hángzhōu native of zì Défǔ 德甫, was one of the most prolific late-Wàn-lì publishers, responsible for the Gézhì cóngshū and the Bǎijiā míngshū 百家名書 series, as well as numerous individual reprints of late-Imperial classics. His editorial output covered medicine, materia medica, geography, antiquarian studies, and bǐjì. Standard scholarship classes all post-Táng works ascribed to Huà Tuó as forgeries.
CBDB has Hú Wénhuàn at c_personid uncertain.
Translations and research
No European-language translation of the Xīn-kè Huà Tuó nèi-zhào tú located. For Huà Tuó’s historical and legendary traditions see the classical Sān-guó zhì and Hòu-Hàn shū biographies and the modern study of Hsü Pi-ching 徐碧卿. For the late-Imperial Daoist-anatomical-diagram tradition see Catherine Despeux, “Visual Representations of the Body in Chinese Medical and Daoist Texts From the Song to the Qing Period,” Asian Medicine 1.1 (2005). For Hú Wén-huàn’s editorial career see CiNii Research, “Míng-dài no kè-shū jiā Hú Wén-huàn ni kansuru kǎo-chá” 明代の刻書家胡文煥に関する考察, Kyūko 汲古 36 (1999).
Other points of interest
The work is one of the principal late-Míng monuments of the Huà Tuó nèizhào pseudepigraphic-anatomy tradition. Hú Wénhuàn’s editorial intervention — as a serial late-Imperial publisher rather than a physician — typifies the late-Míng book-trade pattern of producing prestige-author recensions for the commercial market.
Links
- 新刻華佗內照圖 (Kyōto Univ. RMDA)
- Person notes 華佗 (nominal attribution), 胡文煥 (editor-publisher).
- Cf. parallel pseudepigraphic KR3er119 Xuánmén màijué nèizhào tú.