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Abe no Manao was a member of the Abe Clan. A physician of the Heian Period, he helped compile the first medical treatise in Japan.
He was a physician who, alongside Izumo Hirosada, compiled the first medical treatise in Japan, called the Daidō Ruijūhō (c. 808–811 CE).1
Footnotes
1. Louis Frederic, translated by Kathe Roth (2002) “Japan Encyclopedia”. London: Harvard University Press.
