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Illustration after Chinese diagram showing acupuncture and moxa points: posterior

Anonymous, 1683

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  • Image Size: 6.1" x 12" – Total Size: 8.1" x 14"
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One of the five copperplate engravings from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683), a much-annotated translation of a Chinese acupuncture manual. Ten Rhijne seems to have found a copy of a Chinese acupuncture text in Dejima and his goal was to translate it, but no one on the island could go directly from Chinese to Latin, so he organised a relay. Iwanaga Sōko (1634–1705), a student of Genshō, translated the Chinese into Japanese; Shōdayū Motogi then rendered that into Dutch. Finally, Ten Rhijne translated the Dutch into Latin. In the process, no little accuracy was lost. (Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé)

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