Study on specialization of traditional Japanese medicine using electronic text of medical manuscripts

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K00264
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01080:Sociology of science, history of science and technology-related
• Research Institution: Kitasato University
• Principal Investigator: Hoshino Takayuki 北里大学, 東洋医学総合研究所, 部長(医師) (90726051)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 加畑 聡子 北里大学, 東洋医学総合研究所, 研究員 (20649339) ; 周防 一平 北里大学, 東洋医学総合研究所, 研究員 (90726845)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 漢方 / 複合検索 / データベース

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Kampo is a traditional medicine derived from Chinese medicine and adapted to Japan's unique medical culture. Kampo-related medical books are mainly divided into Chinese medicine books and Japanese medicine books. Many manuscripts and lecture records that haven't been published are included in Japanese medicine books, then the comparison among their contents is difficult. We have developed a system that can efficiently search the texts transliterated from the medical books, and published it as a "Kampo text complex search database" on the website of the Medical History Research Department, Kitasato University Oriental Medicine Research Center. In the future, we will increase the number of listed texts and make it a convenient database for examining Japanese medical books.

Free Research Field

医史学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

今回開発したデータベースはパソコンだけでなくスマートフォンからの使用も念頭においた。類似文を微調整して見つけられるよう、同一行内で2語の検索ができ、検索語間の文字数を制限できるようにした。結果は前後を比較しやすいよう一行ずつ並べ、クリックで該当部が表示される。本文表示では見出し行以外は開閉することで簡易目次表示ができ、ダウンロードも可能とした。このような新規システムが無償公開されたことは意義深い。