Oriental Alchemy

Masumi Chikashige, Nobuji Sasaki, Masahiro Tasaki

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Chikashige surveys alchemy and chemical achievements in ancient China and Japan, relating technical practices to the history of civilisation. The cover title Oriental Alchemy identifies the work whose full title is Alchemy and Other Chemical Achievements of the Ancient Orient.

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Masumi Chikashige; English translation by Nobuji Sasaki; sword-forging drawings by Masahiro Tasaki. Oriental Alchemy. 1936 English version, Alchemy and Other Chemical Achievements of the Ancient Orient. Translation note credits Nobuji Sasaki; the earlier preface credits sword-forging drawings to Masahiro Tasaki. Western alchemy material was omitted and other passages revised or supplemented. Rokakuho Uchida. 1936. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/books/oriental-alchemy