The Acceptance and Doctors’ Stances of Chinese Medicine in the Early Edo Period, Focusing on Gezhi yulun

Many Chinese books reprinted in Japan and annotated books of Zhu Zhenheng’s Gezhi yulun were published and accepted in the early Edo period. This paper focuses Doi Kaku’s Kakuchiyoron tosyo that is a Chinese book reprinted in Japan with headnotes, Genpaku Hirota’s Kakuchiyoron sosyo and Ippo Okamoto’s Kakuchiyoron genkai that are annotated books of Gezhi yulun，and considers how Gezhi yulun was accepted in Japan by weighing the explanatory comments of the three books. As a result, the two former books commented to cite old Chinese texts, the latter book commented clinically. This paper showed different doctors’ stances and a part of circumstances surrounding acceptance of Chinese medicine in the Edo period