Nihon Bukkyō no iryōshi / Shinmura Taku.

"This volume takes up the ambitious task of exploring the rich and com- plex history of interactions between Buddhism and medicine in Japan from the eighth to the late nineteenth century. The book is illustrated by numerous black and white reproductions of Japanese visual sources from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, including early modern woodblock prints and book manuscripts as well as a few modern photographs. Drawing on an impressive array of sources, including Indian sutras, Chinese Buddhist treatises and writings by a diverse plethora of Japanese Buddhist thinkers and practitioners, Shinmura shows how important Buddhist concepts, teachings, scriptures, and methods were in forming and shaping the medical practices of premodern Japan."--From book review by Anna Andreeva.