Hua Shou 滑壽

8vo (270 x 185mm.), text in Chinese with Japanese reading marks, 16 full-page woodcut illustrations, original wrappers with later stitching, in modern blue buckram folding case, manuscript marginalia in red and black ink, some worming, wrappers slightly worn

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Hua Shou's text on acupuncture was first published in 1341 and it was widely acknowledged as the standard text on acupuncture. The woodcuts depict the centres for acupuncture and the text explains the Yin and Yang through the arms and legs, the circulation of the breath of life through the fourteen meridians, and the eight vital blood vessels.

For a seventeenth-century commentary on Hua Shou's work, see lot 82.