An English translation of "one of thirty detailed sections of a voluminous medical treatise called The Essence of Medical Prescriptions (Ishimpo). These sections were grouped by topic by Tamba Yasuyori, a Chinese physician living in Japan in the tenth century" -- from "History of the Text". The 28th section, translated here, is devoted to the "bedroom arts."

Tao of sex: An Annotated Translation of the Twenty-eighth Section of the Essence of Medical Prescriptions (Ishimpo)

Ishihara, Akira; Levy, Howard S; Takata, Shojiro, illustrator

Howard S Levy and Akira Ishihara

1969

2007.066.478