Ishinpō
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ishimpō, Ishinbō, Ishimbō, Ishinhō, Heart of Medicine, Ishinho
thumb|250px|The 22nd volume of the Ishinpō, which has the only illustration in the full text.
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- Author
- Yasuyori Tanba
- First published
- 1973
- Editions
- 1
- Subjects
- Chinese Medicine, Early works to 1800
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Main subject
- medicine
- Image
- Isinnhou.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ishinpō
- inception
- 0984-00-00
- publication date
- 0984-00-00
- language of work or name
- kanbun
- copyright status
- public domain
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thumb|250px|The 22nd volume of the Ishinpō, which has the only illustration in the full text.
is the oldest surviving Japanese medical text. It was completed in 984 by Tamba Yasuyori (also referred in some sources as Tanba no Yasuyori) and is 30 volumes in length. The work is partly based on a Chinese medical work called Zhubing yuanhou lun (諸病源候論 General Treatise on Causes and Manifestations of All Diseases), compiled by Sui dynasty writer Chao Yuanfang. Many of the texts cited in Ishinpō have been lost in China, and have only survived to the present through their inclusion in the work. It is a national treasure of Japan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ishinpō” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.