Kagawa Shuutoku

A Confucian physician from the mid-Edo period. He was from Himeji, Harima Province (Hyogo Prefecture). His pen name was Taichu, and he was known by the names Shuan and Ippondo. At the age of 18, he traveled to Kyoto to study medicine under Goto Konzan, a master of traditional medicine, and at the advice of his teacher, he studied Confucianism under Ito Jinsai. In five years, he had read all medical books, ancient and modern, and greatly spread the theories of traditional medicine. He advocated the theory that Confucian medicine is one and the same, and stressed that the holy path and medical art are originally one and the same. He tried to reject the theory of the five fortunes and six energy, and aimed to practice medicine based on experiments. He wrote books such as "Ippondo Yakusen" and "Ippondo Gyoyo Igen," and is said to have had over 400 disciples.

[Otori Ranzaburo]

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江戸中期の儒医。播磨(はりま)国（兵庫県）姫路(ひめじ)の人。字(あざな)は太冲、修庵・一本堂と号す。18歳のとき京都に遊学し、古医方の大家後藤艮山(こんざん)について医学を修めるかたわら、師の勧めに従って伊藤仁斎(じんさい)に師事して儒学を修めた。5年にして古今の医書を読破し、古医方の説を大いに広めた。儒医一本説を唱え、聖道と医術とはその本を一にすることを力説した。五運六気説をつとめて排斥し、実験に基づく医方を行うことを旨とした。『一本堂薬選』『一本堂行餘医言』などを著し、その門人は400余人を数えたという。

［大鳥蘭三郎］

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