Asada Sōhaku 淺田宗伯 (Chinese reading Qiǎntián Zōngbó; given name Korotsune 惟常; hào Ritsuen 慄園 and Shikishi 識此; 1815–1894) — Japanese physician of the late Edo and early Meiji periods, born in Shinano 信濃. He served as official physician (奧醫師) to the late Tokugawa shogunate, attended the imperial family in the early Meiji period, and treated the future Taishō Emperor as a child; this last service made him nationally famous. After the bakufu’s collapse he continued in private practice in Tōkyō and corresponded with leading Chinese intellectuals including Huáng Zūnxiàn 黃遵憲 (1848–1905), who arranged the 1879 Canton printing of his most influential work KR3ep002 Xiānzhé yīhuà 先哲醫話.
He published more than thirty medical works in classical Chinese in the Edo kohō 古方 tradition, including Kōkoku meii-den 皇國名醫傳 (a biographical anthology of Japanese physicians), Shōkan ron benseki 傷寒論辨析 (analyses of the Shānghán lùn tradition), Zatsubyō ron 雜病論, and clinical case anthologies. He is generally reckoned the senior figure of the late-Edo kohō clinical synthesis.
CBDB has no entry; DILA has no Buddhist-Persons-authority entry. Principal Japanese reference: Yakazu Dōmei 矢數道明, Kinsei Kanpō ijinden 近世漢方醫人傳 (Meiji Shoin, 1969); for the Huáng Zūnxiàn connection see Kamachi 1981.