SET 3a-f Kim Yemong et al. Ui’bang’ryuchui 醫方類聚, vol. 5, pp. 51-70
A D B E C F SET 3a-f Kim Yemong et al. Ui’bang’ryuchui 醫方類聚, vol. 5, pp. 51-70 (original edition in Kyoto Palace, Japan; microfilm copy in National Library, Korea) Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) – Chinese ideas about the images of the animal spirits, here of the lungs, the heart, the liver, the […]
SET 2a+b Huangting dunjia yuanshen jing 黃庭遁甲緣身經 (Book of the Hidden Period and the Causal [Karma] Body of the Yellow Court) DZ 0873
A B SET 2a+b Huangting dunjia yuanshen jing 黃庭遁甲緣身經 (Book of the Hidden Period and the Causal [Karma] Body of the Yellow Court) DZ 0873 A Shangqing huangting wuzang liufu zhenren yuzhou jing 上清黃庭五藏六腑真人玉軸經 (Precious Scroll of the Zhenren on the Six Receptacles and Five Viscera of the Yellow Court of Shangqing) DZ 1402Phoenix of […]
The Lower Cinnabar Field
The Lower Cinnabar Field Li Jiong’s Neijing tu 内景圖 (Chart of the Inner Landscape, (1269)) Huangdi bashiyi nanjing zuan tu jujie in Zhengtong Daozang 1436–49, Hanfen Lou, Shanghai (Ming edition of the Daoist Canon) Wellcome Library, London, L0034715. Cross-reference: Maps of the inner sceneries • from the right side, D | 16Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 […]
Anicka Yi, Le Pain Symbiotique (2014)
1 2 3 4 Anicka Yi, Le Pain Symbiotique (2014) © 2023 Anicka Yi, courtesy of 47 Canal, New York, and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei; licensed by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn (1, 3) Anicka Yi, Le Pain Symbiotique, PVC dome, projector, single channel video, glycerin soap, resin, dough, pigmented powder, plastic, Mylar, beads, tempera […]
1682 Specimen Medicinae Sinicae, unknown artist
1682 Specimen Medicinae Sinicae, unknown artist This “Viscera Man” was also based on a Chinese source (Image 1) but was printed in the 1682 Specimen Medicinae Sinicae. The anonymous artist retained the Chinese original’s flat rendering (Image 1) rather than the three-dimensional rendering of Christian Mentzel’s sketch (Image 3) and the sketch (Image 4) in […]
Ca. 1660s-1681c. Lat. Fol. 95, unknown artist
Ca. 1660s-1681c. Lat. Fol. 95, unknown artist This sketch of the “Viscera Man” was also based on a Chinese source (image 1), however, the artist remains anonymous. It was included in the only known extant manuscript (Ms. Lat. Fol. 95 preserved in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin) of the 1682 printed Specimen Medicinae Sinicae. It illustrates […]
Ca. 1681 Ms sin. 11, part 3 by Christian Mentzel
Ca. 1681 Ms sin. 11, part 3 by Christian Mentzel The personal physician to the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenberg and curator of his library, Christian Mentzel (1622-1701), sketched this “Viscera Man” based on a Chinese source (Image 1). Both Mentzel’s sketch (Image 3) and the printed 1597 original (Image 1) are included in […]
1597 reprint of Wanbing huichun “Diagram of Man’s Side-Body”
‘Diagram of Man’s Side-Body’ in 1597 reprint of Wanbing huichun (Ceshen ren tu 側身人圖). This version of the “Viscera Man” was printed in a 1597 reprint of the Chinese medical text Myriad diseases ‘Spring Returned’ (i.e., ‘cured’) (Wanbing huichun 萬病回春) that is preserved in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. – This 1597 reprint of a “viscera […]
Published in 1597 reprint of a 1565 Yixue gangmu, preserved in Ms sin. 11, part 1, “Enlightened-Hall Diagram of the Viscera”
‘Enlightened-Hall Diagram of the Viscera’, in 1597 reprint of a 1565 Yixue gangmu, preserved in Ms sin. 11, part 1 (Zangfu Mingtang tu 臟腑明堂圖). This fold-out plate (ca. 79cm x 58cm) of a “Viscera Man” has been inserted into a manuscript (ms. sin. 11) preserved in Biblioteka Jagiellońska Kraków, Poland, digitalized by the Staatsbibliothek in […]
Kinrai ryūkō kabuki uwasa kenbutsu no hara
Kinrai ryūkō kabuki uwasa kenbutsu no hara (A Belly-Survey of the Kabuki Actors Most Talked About Today, late 19th c.) – It is hard, today, to appreciate the glamor of Kabuki actors in early modern Japan. The top stars were celebrated like the movie stars and sports heroes of our own age, their names more […]