Sea Day

Japanese: うみそこひ
Sea Day

...The treatment of eye disease in the picture scroll "Yamainososhi" from the end of the Heian period is said to be a picture of an ophthalmologist inserting needles into a man with cataracts. In Japan, it has long been called "shirosokohi" or "umisokohi," and in the Edo period, the founder of the prestigious Majima school of ophthalmology, Majima Seigen Sozu, was an expert in acupuncture for cataracts. Also, the late Edo period ophthalmologist Habu Gensho (son of Habu Genseki) has a book called "Hakunai-e Surgery Jinmei" which contains only clinical records of cataracts, and it is known that he had many cataract patients. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Umisokohi" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…平安末期の絵巻《病草紙(やまいのそうし)》にある眼病の治療は,白内障の男に眼医者が針をたてて手術している図であるといわれる。日本では長く〈しろそこひ〉〈うみそこひ〉といわれ,江戸時代の眼科の名門馬島(まじま)流の元祖馬島清眼僧都は,白内障の針術を得意としていた。また幕末の眼科医土生玄昌(はぶげんしよう)(土生玄碩(げんせき)の子)には,白内障の臨床記録だけをつづった《白内翳手術人名》があり,白内障患者の多かったことが知られる。…

※「うみそこひ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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