Pregnancy, Incantations, and Talismans in Early Medieval Japan: Chinese Influences on the Ritual Activities of Court Physicians
Court physicians (<i>ishi</i> or <i>kusushi</i> 医師), officials in the Bureau of Medications, were responsible for the well-being of court aristocracy since the establishment of a centralized state on the Japanese archipelago in the eighth century. Despite an increasing intere...
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Main Author: | Alessandro Poletto |
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Language: | EN |
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2021
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