Pregnancy, Incantations, and Talismans in Early Medieval Japan: Chinese Influences on the Ritual Activities of Court Physicians
Court physicians (ishi or kusushi 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 interest in the therapeutic arena of premode...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI
2021
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Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 11 |
Further subjects: | B
Pregnancy
B hemerology B Physicians B Japan B Ritual B onmyōdō |
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