This research investigated the “Shuhokiku, ” an Edo-era bestseller, said to have been authored by Manase Dosan (1507-1594) and supplemented by Manase Gensaku (1549-1631), The investigation yielded the following results:
(1) “Shuhokiku” is surmised to be the oral discourse of Manase Gensaku's disciple, Okamoto Genya (1587-1645), transcribed by Genya's student.
(2) Of the prescriptions included in the “Shuhokiku, ” seventy percent are quotations from
Gong Ting Xian's medical treatises. There are numerous quotes from
Gong Ting Xian's works, particularly the “
Wanbing Huichun”; prescriptions stemming from this medical manuscript account for sixty percent of the prescriptions in the “Shuhokiku”.
(3) The “Shuhokiku” is based on a medical system of “basic and modified prescriptions.” The numerous modified prescriptions cited in the “Shuhokiku” demonstrate that the work relied heavily on the “
Wanbing Huichun.”
(4) Various editions of the “Shuhokiku” are classified into three groups.
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