Korean Anatomical Charts in the Context of the East Asian Medical Tradition

To the best of current knowledge, traditional Korean medical literature contains only three sets of images showing the internal organs of the human body. All three are highly significant in various ways for our understanding of East Asian traditions of anatomical representation. The earliest set, in Ui’bang’ryuchui 醫方類聚 (Classified Collection of Medical Remedies) 1477 CE, reflects a Daoist vision of the internal landscape of the human body. It comprises six separate images illustrating the five zang organs (heart, spleen, liver, lungs and kidney) and the gallbladder, one of the six fu organs (the others are the stomach, large intestine, small