Sakade Yoshinobu坂出祥伸

Style & Daoist names

Sakade Yoshinobu

Period

Modern to contemporary

Dates

1934 — 2020

Role

Daoist ScholarsProfessor, Kansai University

Birthplace

Japan

Life

Sakade Yoshinobu was a Japanese scholar of Daoism and Chinese intellectual history, professor emeritus at Kansai University, and president of the Japanese Society of Taoist Studies. His research covers Daoist thought on nourishing life, Daoism and science, and numerological and magical arts. He wrote A Comprehensive Study of Ancient Chinese Thought on Nourishing Life (editor, 1988), Daoism and the Thought of Nourishing Life (1992), Qi and Nourishing Life (1993), Daoism in East Asia: China, Korea, Japan (editor), and Studies in Chinese Thought: Medicine, Nourishing Life and Scientific Thought, among others, advocating that Daoism be understood through the lens of nourishing life and conceptions of the body. He was also one of the editors of the Japanese Dictionary of Daoism (1994). The above is publicly available academic information.

Contributions & Influence

• Systematically studied Daoist thought on nourishing life and conceptions of the body
• Studied the spread of Daoism across East Asia
• Contributed to editing the Dictionary of Daoism

Works

• Dōkyō to Yōjō Shisō (Daoism and Thought on Nourishing Life)
• ‘Qi’ and Nourishing Life
• Chūgoku Kodai Yōjō Shisō no Sōgōteki Kenkyū (Comprehensive Studies on Ancient Chinese Thought on Nourishing Life, editor)
• Dōkyō Jiten (Dictionary of Daoism, co-editor)