Okanishi Tameto 岡西為人 (sinicized Gāngxī Wéirén, 1898–1973), one of the two most prominent twentieth-century Japanese historians of Chinese medical bibliography (alongside the earlier-generation Mori Risshi 森立之). Active first at the Manchurian Medical College’s Chinese Medicine Research Laboratory (滿洲醫科大學中國醫學研究室) in Shěnyáng 瀋陽 from the 1930s through 1945, then in Japan after the Soviet occupation. Principal works:
- Sòngyǐqián yījí kǎo 宋以前醫籍考 (final form 1958; expansion of his 1936 Zhōngguó yījí kǎo 中國醫籍考) — the standard modern reference for pre-Sòng Chinese medical bibliography, still cited today; reprinted Taipei: Nántiān shūjú, 1981.
- Dānfāng zhī yánjiū 丹方之研究 (KR3ed144) — a 1930s bibliographic-statistical survey of dānfāng literature based on the 1,600-volume Manchurian Medical College library; the early systematic methodology that he later expanded into his Sòngyǐqián yījí kǎo.
Okanishi’s bibliographic method — systematic library-survey + statistical extraction + cross-reference catalogue — established modern Japanese standards for the historical study of Chinese medical literature and influenced subsequent generations of medical-bibliographic scholarship in Japan, Taiwan, and PRC.