Cultivating Ch'i: A Samurai Physician's Teachings on the Way of Health by Kaibara Ekiken

Cultivating Ch'i: A Samurai Physician's Teachings on the Way of Health

Kaibara Ekiken with William Scott Wilson (Translator)

223 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction health philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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Samurai are best known for taking life--but here is a samurai doctor's prescription for how to preserve life, and to make yours a long and healthy one. Unlike other samurai of his time, the samurai Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714) was concerned less wit...

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