Tamba no Motokata 丹波元堅 (also 多紀元堅 Taki no Motokata, sinicized Dānbō Yuánjiān, 1795–1857), zì Màozhī 茂之, hào Mòshēng (Saitei) 茝庭, was a late-Edo physician and philologist, the youngest son of 丹波元簡 (Tamba no Mototane), and from 1827 (after his elder brother 丹波元胤 Motoin’s early death) the senior figure in the Tamba philological circle at the Igaku-kan 醫學館. He served as oku-ishi 奥醫師 to the Tokugawa shōgun and was elevated to hōin 法印 in 1841. His main surviving works:
- Sùwèn shào shí 素問紹識, 4 juan, 1846 — supplement to his father’s Sùwèn shí (KR3ea012).
- Shānghán lùn shù yì 傷寒論述義, Jīnguì yùhán yào lüè shù yì 金匱玉函要略述義 — supplements to his father’s Shānghán and Jīnguì collations.
- Zá bìng guǎng yào 雜病廣要, the encyclopedic compendium of clinical syndrome literature in 39 juan (his magnum opus, completed 1853).
- Yī xìn 醫賸 (philological miscellany on Chinese medical literature).
Motokata’s editorial method is distinguished by its systematic recourse to the Tài sù 太素 recension recovered from the Ninnaji 仁和寺 archive in the 1820s. He died in Ansei 4 (1857), aged 63.