Research Themes

• 在村医の視点からみた明治初期の近代医療システム構築過程
  01 Apr. 2023 - 31 Mar. 2026
• Research in medical ethics, rules of medical practice and its ideological origins in the Asian traditional medicine
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
  The University of Tokyo
  01 Apr. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2022
  This research, conducted by about 20 scholars who are experts on medicine or thought culture of various Asian areas, was aiming at revealing ethics of medical practice or rules for doctors with its ideological origins in the Asian traditional medicine. As result, many studies ware performed from various angles about morality and ethic thought in the traditional medicine of Japan, China, and India with their neighboring nations, then specialized papers were written by each participant. In addition, investigations of the medical ethic education in educational institutions for traditional medicine in current Japan, Korea, and Vietnam were performed widely, and reports of the actual situations were made. The above were finally compiled in the book and published.
• Research on Community Medicine from the Perspective of the Development of Village Doctors: Based on the Documents of Doctors' Families in Okayama Prefecture
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
  Teikyo Heisei University
  01 Apr. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2022
  The outline and purpose of this project is to investigate medical records, medical books, and equipment of village doctors' families in Okayama Prefecture. For the Hirai family's materials in Setouchi City, newly discovered historical materials were photographed. And the catalog of the historical materials(library collection) was completed. It was found that the collection is typical of the library and documents of village doctors. In March 2023, we published "NakaShima Ika Shiryo Kenkyu" Vol.1, No.3, which includes this catalog and a discussion of the Hirai family and their medical activities.
  We are currently organizing the results of our research on the Yoshioka family's materials in Okayama City, and expect to publish a catalog and discussion of the collection by the end of 2023.
  It was also revealed that in the early Meiji period, village doctors in Okayama Prefecture were collaborating in large-scale vaccination activities.
• Study on formation and development of the medicinal theory in the earliest days of Traditional Japanese Medicine
  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
  Teikyo Heisei University
  01 Apr. 2015 - 31 Mar. 2017
  TASHIRO Sanki and MANASE Dosan represent in the earliest days of Traditional Japanese Medicine. There are both of their medicinal books; Nodoku.This research presents TASHIRO Sannki’s Nodoku,books, “Toryunodokushu” (T0293) in the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry and “Nodokushushinsennoho” (乾1801) in the Kyou sho’oku Library.“Nodokuzennarabinitsuika” (ノ/5) in the Fujikawa Collection of the Kyoto University Library is regarded as the primary edition of MANASE Dosan’s Nodoku books.TASHIRO Sanki uses the original notations as the medicinal names, while MANASE Dosan uses the general medicinal names.MANASE Dosan puts marks on medicinal names for the purpose of indication of medicinal effects.
• 日中伝統医学における用法用量の再検討-漢方処方における薬用量と服用法の関係-
  2012 - 2012
• 江戸時代丸散剤処方の解析―薬用植物の伝統的利用法の探索―
  2011 - 2011