A Investigation Of The Developmental History Of The Japanese Acupuncture-Moxibustion

China and Japan have kept contact each other since the ancient time when Japan had no letters. There was large numbers of Chinese and Korean people who went East to Japan. Most of them settled in there, contributed to the progress of Japan. There are many descendants of them in modern Japan. Chinese and Korean people brought so many cultures to Japan, however, medicine was especially valued among them, because human being will become sick. According to the "Nihon shoki" 《日本书纪》 (the History of Japan:A.D.720), Japan asked Korean doctor Kon Mu(金武) to cure Japanese Emperor Ingvou Tennou(允恭天皇) of his disease in 422.It is the earliest record that a foreign doctor came treating to Japan.After Sui-dynasty integrated all of China in 581, Shoutoku-taishi(圣德太子) sent Onono Imoko(小野妹子) as delegate to Sui-dynasty , established relations with China in 607. In the Tang-dynasty period, what Kentoushi(遣唐使: Japanese envoi to Tang-dynasty ) learned Chinese medicine raised the level of Japanese medicine. After Japan stopped sending Kentoushi, Japanese doctors, from Japanese point of view, had begun to organize what themselves learned from China. "Yi-shin-hou"(医心方) written by Tanba Yasuyori(丹波康赖) was the corpus of Chinese medicine which Japanese doctor learnedat that time.From the Song-dynasty period, the relationship between China and Japan gradually developed. Although Yuan-dynasty had invaded Japan twice, cultural exchange between both nations on a civilian level had not been stopped. A invention of printing in the Bei-Song-dynasty period brought a revolution to the academic community. The spread of medical books raised a level of medicine. These books were exported to Japan in a stream. Many Japanese Buddhist monk came studying Buddhism, Confucianism, and others, especially, medicine to China. Many of them were very knowledgeable about medicine, they helped the development of Japanese medicine with their current Chinese medical knowledge. Among their works, "Kissa-youjyouki"(吃茶养生记) written by Eisai(荣西) and "Ton-yi-shou"(顿医抄), "Man-an-pou"(万安方) written by Kajiwara...