Wang Tao

Japanese: 王燾 - おうとう

A native of the Tang Dynasty in China, he spent his life as a bureaucrat and politician, rising to the position of governor of Ye Commandery, but is famous for having compiled the Gedaihyo (Extras of the Secrets of the Greater Tai System) in 752 (Tianbao 11). His birth and death years are unknown. As the grandson of Wang Gui (571-639), Minister of Rites of the Tang Dynasty, he was likely quite old by 752. He was in poor health from a young age and had an interest in medicine, and during the 20-odd years he spent at Taikaku, he consulted medical books from the royal library and Kobunkan to collect prescriptions, which he compiled into the Gedaihyo. [Akahori Akira]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，唐の人で，官僚政治家として生涯を送り，鄴郡の太守にまでなったが，752年(天宝11)に《外台秘要（げだいひよう）》を撰したことで有名である。生没年は不明。唐の礼部尚書，王珪(571‐639)の孫であるから，752年にはかなりの高齢であったと思われる。若い時から病弱で，医薬に関心を持ち，台閣にあった20余年間に王室図書館，弘文館の医書などを閲覧して処方をあつめ，編纂したのが《外台秘要》である。【赤堀昭】

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