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Dear Shinjiro,

I appreciate your comments, and am glad to hear you are

teaching. I assume you are now living up in Bishop, Ca? As far as

your translation issues, I have forwarded your issues on translations

to Nigel Wiseman and Craig Mitchell for their reply. I do not have

the historical background to discuss these myself with you, but

appreciate your translation work. I've enjoyed your recent series in

the North American Journal of Acupuncture very much. I look forward

to seeing your Shang Han Lun work in the future. Feel free to

contact me privately as well.

 

Take care,

 

 

On Jul 18, 2005, at 9:32 AM, Shinjiro Kanazawa wrote:

 

> Dear Z'ev Sensei: It is nice to be able to write you.

> I started to tutor a group of the members of JAAC

> (Japanese Acupuncture Association of California) to

> read Shang Han Lun. I thought it is good for Japanese

> acupuncturists in the US to know about the English

> translation of Shang Han Lun, which done by C.

> Mitchel, F. Ye, and N. Wiseman, so I read for them.

> And I found their mistranslation in the first line of

> the Zhang Ji's Preface. It starts, " Each time I read

> about Yue-Ren entering [the Kingdom of] Guo to examine

> [patients] and inspect the complexion of the Marquis

> of Qi. " This is wrong. Guo and Qi were different

> countries, so you cannot meet the Marquis of Qi

> entering the Kingdom of Guo. It is obvious that the

> translators even did not try to refer " Shi Ji Bian Que

> Can Gong Lie Chuan. "

> This made me wonder the quality of this translation.

> Some times, they translate idiomatic expressions word

> by word, loosing real meanings.

> I will report in future what happens in the main

> text!!

> Shinjiro

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