Symbolic image of the heart: Chinese/Korean/Japanese

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Symbolic image of the heart: Chinese/Korean/Japanese. Symbolic illustration of the heart. One of a set of five illustrations of internal organs from Uibang-yuchwi (Classified Collection of Medical Recipes), section on the Five Viscera. Uibang-yuchwi is a compendium Yifang leiju – or Chinese, Yifang leiju – is a compendium of Chinese medical remedy literature compiled in C15 Korea by Kim Rye-mong (1406–1469), Yu Seong-won (?- 1456) et al., under the auspices of King Sejong of Korea (r 1418–1450). It originally comprised 365 juan (volumes), and contained over 50,000 precriptions drawn from 150 medical works ranging from the Qin period (221–206 BCE) to the early Ming (1368–1644). The original text is no longer extant. This image comes from a Japanese facsimile made in 1861 (1st year of the Bunkyu era), which unfortunately lacks juan 155, 156, 09 and 220. The text says: Heart: Qi of li (Fire), essence of Fire. Its colour is red. It resembles a hanging lotus. Its spirit has the form of a vermilion sparrow. Heart engenders shen spirit, which is transformed into a Jade Woman. She is 8 cun tall (1 cun [Chinese/proportional inch] = c 3 cm). She wears brocade garments and holds a jade flower, and goes in and out of the mansion of the heart. Chinese Medicine. TCM. Spirits of the organs. Internal visualisation. Work ID: sbfp7xqj.

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