「潔淨」的歷史
「中國歷史上的醫療與社會」新興主題研究計畫中小
型研討會系列之二
Hot spring and conception of the body in the Edu era(1603-1868) Japan
鈴木則子
（日本甲南女子大學講師）
| Traditionally, scholars have studied the evolution of hot springs in Japan from the
perspective of the history of leisure and entertainment. Their studies have focused
principally on guide books, travel diaries and collections of poems. They have explored
the popularity of hot springs in relation to such phenomena as social stability, economic
growth, and the popularization of travel. There is, however, much more to the history of hot springs. The Edo era saw the publication of not only travel guides about hot springs, but also medical treaties and manuals about the therapeutic value of bathing. Hot springs therapy became especially fashionable in the eighteenth century, and water treatment emerged as an object of medical study. This trend was closedly connected with new conceptions of medicine and the body. My paper explores the historical development of this new thinking about the physical effectiveness of water and hot springs. It examines, in particular, changing views about the outside and inside of the bodum that is to say, the connection between the cleanliness of the skin and the healthy circilation of vitality. |