[A review of Hirata Atsutane's ()].

In the book named (), through a series of examinations, the author, Hirata Atsutane of the late Edo period of Japan, argued that the author of the book () is Ge Xuan, brother of Ge Hong's grandfather, whereas the names of Dai Ba, Zhang Ji, Zhong Jing, etc., in ancient books are but his other names or his alias. With Ge Xuan as a basis, Hirata Atsutane explored its former and later history and eventually pointed out that medical prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine were originally formulated by the gods, and fundamentally rooted from the Japanese gods, or called in ancient Japan, which is the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medical art. Prospectively, Hirata Atsutane's such conclusion is incredible. Actually, Hirata Atsutane used a series of textual investigation to interpret the doctrine of supernatural medicine, or the idea of "medical " he advocated. This thought also corresponds to the thinking of recede-to-ancient reflecting his view of superiority of Japan over China. In a broader sense, such viewpoint on China can also be seen as a strong nationalist view in Japan, emphasized by the intelligentsia represented by classical scholars and even by Japan as a whole in the mid-late Edo period.