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
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: MDPI AG 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/1064e56b80e745a4b7e64ccff9c3d03a
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