[Rarebooks] OFFER: 18TH CENTURY ACUPUNCTURE MANUSCRIPT.

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AKIYAMA SCHOOL, [signature unread]: SHINKYU KEIRAKU ZUSHO [MANUSCRIPT 
ACUPUNCTURE MANUAL]. Dated Kyoho 9 [1724], complete in one volume. 
Manuscript made with ink and brush. Rather large pages, 10.875 x 8.2 
inches, 82 Pp. of which 18 Pp. are drawings. These include the whole body 
parts and individual organs. With later corrections to the table of 
contents, only, in red ink. The final few pages also include simple 
drawings within the text, just before the final colophon. The Akiyama 
School is an indigenous Japanese school of acupuncture and of martial arts. 
It was founded by Yoshitoki Akiyama who traveled in 1530 to Tientsin a 
coastal Chinese town where he practiced medicine based on herbal healing. 
While he was there he met and took lessons from an itinerant Taoist healer 
named Huei-To. From him he learned a total of 28 methods for resuscitation, 
called in Japanese, Kappo, as well as Atemi Waza, methods of striking vital 
points. Akiyama returned to Shikoku Japan where he took in students and 
taught his methods of Shuhatu Jutsu. But his original techniques, based on 
his Chinese education, were so violent, crude and limited in number that 
his students quickly left him. While in retreat at a Shinto monastery where 
he prayed to the Tenjin of Dazaifu, he noted snow on a willow tree in 
winter and this led him to develop the key points of the Yoshin Ryu martial 
style. From it he developed three hundred and three natural movements which 
warded off combat and allowed blows to fall without danger as often as 
possible. He also modified his original acupuncture techniques. These, 
however were always described in quite poetic terms, and needed constant 
interpretation to be understood by each following generation. This treatise 
is just such a treatise explaining and clarifying Akiyama techniques for 
early 18th century users. The covers are worn, aged and used. The pages 
show their age, but except for a little worming, which never affects 
legibility or the clarity of the drawings it is in Very Good antiquarian 
condition. $1750.00

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