Cultivating Ch'i
A Samurai Physician's Teachings on the Way of Health
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2013
Summary
Samurai are best known for taking life—but here is a samurai doctor’s prescription for how to preserve life, and to make yours a long and healthy one.
Unlike other samurai of his time, the samurai Kaibara Ekiken (1630–1714) was concerned less with swordsmanship than with how to maintain and nurture the healthy mind and body upon which martial techniques and philosophy depended. While serving as the chief medical doctor and healer to the Kuroda clan, he came to a holistic view of how t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590309889 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159030988X |
| Author: | Kaibara Ekiken, William Scott Wilson |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 133mm x 191mm |
Kaibara Ekiken
William Scott Wilson is the foremost translator into English of traditional Japanese texts on samurai culture. He received BA degrees from Dartmouth College and the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, and an MA in Japanese literary studies from the University of Washington. His best-selling books include The Book of Five Rings, The Unfettered Mind, and The Lone Samurai, a biography of Miyamoto Musashi.
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