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History and Progress of Japanese Acupuncture

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 359-365, 2010., 2010
After Chiso brought acupuncture to Japan from Wu (China) in the sixth century, it has progressed in unique ways within the various historical milieus of the past 1500 years. Ishitsu‐rei, the first medical law of Japan established in 701, explains the medical system of acupuncture in detail showing that acupuncture was being administered under the ...
Akiko Kobayashi, Miwa Uefuji, Washiro Yasumo   +2 more
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Locating Traces of Arboreal Beings: Connecting the Tree and the Woodblock

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 145-155, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Woodblocks for printmaking are multi‐perspectival communicators inscribed with layered narratives. The artistic process of cutting excavates the surface of a woodblock, making visible lesser‐seen traces of the past, reflective of the practice of archaeology.
Julian Laffan
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Identification of Materials and Kirazuri Decorative Technique in Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints Using Non-Invasive Spectroscopic Tools

Heritage
Ten ukiyo-e woodblock prints from the collection of the Museo delle Culture in Lugano (Switzerland) were analyzed to identify the materials used in their production. These Japanese artworks were traditionally created with colors derived from minerals and
Laura Rampazzi, Valentina Brunello, Francesco Paolo Campione, Cristina Corti, Ludovico Geminiani, Sandro Recchia, Moira Luraschi   +6 more
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From Valverde to Kulmus: Tracing the Western origins of Kaitai Shinsho's frontispiece design in early modern Japanese medicine

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 4, Page 415-419, April 2025.
Abstract This study investigates the intriguing choice of frontispiece design in Kaitai Shinsho (1774), the first systematic Japanese translation of a Western anatomical text. While the main content of Kaitai Shinsho was translated from Johann Adam Kulmus's “Ontleedkundige Tafelen” (1734), its frontispiece notably deviates from Kulmus's original design,
Chuan‐Hang Yu, Toshihide Sato
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Does culture matter in corporate cash holdings?

International Review of Finance, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2025.
Abstract This paper identifies culture as an important factor affecting corporate cash holdings by using China and its national culture, Confucianism, as the setting. We find that firms located in regions with stronger Confucian culture hold persistently higher levels of cash. We employ an instrumental variable to draw causal inference.
Yongning Deng, Sipeng Zeng
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Meiji Woodblock Prints by Utagawa Kokunimasa : In the Collection of the National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk [PDF]

, 2020
The Western world discovered the Japanese art of woodblock printing at the end of the 19th century. Europeans were fascinated by melancholic views of Mount Fuji or expressive and immensely decorative depictions of kabuki actors and geishas from the Edo ...
Jankiewicz-Brzostowska, Monika
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Variations in Hiroshige’s Print “The Plum Garden at Kameido”

Heritage
This work examines variations in Utagawa Hiroshige’s “The Plum Garden at Kameido” by studying 82 surviving impressions of the print. Through comparative analysis, differences were observed across printings, driven by changes in woodblocks, block wear ...
Capucine Korenberg
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Illusions of textuality: The semiotics of literary memes in contemporary media

Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4-6, April-June 2024.
Abstract This article seeks to account for the phenomenon where cultural productions are able to transcend different chronotopes and masquerade in myriad forms while sustaining an illusion of itself as a text. Using the Barthian distinction between work and Text as its framework, the article argues that multimodal semiotics offers a theoretically ...
Tong King Lee
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Historical subjects represented in the Feliks Jasienski collection of Japanese woodblock-prints [PDF]

, 2019
Jasienski started to buy Japanese woodblock-prints, lacquerware, bronzes and other kind of art pieces. This interest became a passion which he deepened by studying Japanese culture. He was interested in its history, aesthetics, and symbolism.
Görlich, Aleksandra
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To Hell with Devotion: Buddhism in Senjafuda

Arts
This article concerns nōsatsu, also known in Japanese as senjafuda and generally known as “votive slips” in English. Nōsatsu emerged in the 18th century out of popular practices related to pilgrimage in the city of Edo.
Glynne Walley
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