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Kaibara Ekiken William Scott Wilson

Cultivating Ch'i

A Samurai Physician's Teachings on the Way of Health

Kaibara Ekiken,  William Scott Wilson,  William Scott Wilson

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Shambhala Publications Inc
15 April 2013
Exercise & workout books
Samurai are better known for taking life than preserving it, but Cultivating Ch'i is a samurai doctor's prescription for how to live a long and healthy life.

Discover a different side of Japanese swordsmanship through this fascinating treatise by a samurai doctor on how to maintain a healthy mind, body, and spiritual life

Samurai are best known for taking life-but here is a samurai doctor's prescription for how to preserve life, and to make yours a long and healthy one. Unlike other samurai of his time, the samurai Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714) was concerned less with swordsmanship than with how to maintain and nurture the healthy mind and body upon which martial techniques and philosophy depended. While serving as the chief medical doctor and healer to the Kuroda clan, he came to a holistic view of how the physical, mental, and spiritual lives of his patients were connected.

Drawing from his medical practice, the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, and his life experience, Ekiken created this text as a guide to sustaining health and stamina from youth to old age. Ekiken's advice regarding moderation, food and drink, sleep, sexual activity, bathing, and therapeutic practices is still amazingly intuitive and appropriate nearly three hundred years after this book was written.
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Translated by:   ,
Imprint:   Shambhala Publications Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 191mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   266g
ISBN:   9781590309889
ISBN 10:   159030988X
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

William Scott Wilson is the foremost translator into English of traditional Japanese texts on samurai culture. He received BA degrees from Dartmouth College and the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, and an MA in Japanese literary studies from the University of Washington. His best-selling books includeThe Book of Five Rings,The Unfettered Mind, andThe Lone Samurai, a biography of Miyamoto Musashi.

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