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Mianyang Vessels
Mianyang vessels
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ne of my Mianyang mai tu or
vessel charts designed for
Shiatsu.
It is based on the 28.1 cm
high, black lacquered wooden
figurine unearthed in China on
4th March, 1993, from the no.2
tomb at Yonxing in Mianyang, a
district of Sichuan.
The figurine is dated from the
second century B.C and
Western Han period, and as
such is the oldest extant
artifact theoretically mapping
the mai or vessels of Chinese
medicine. There are ten such
mai depicted as red lacquer
lines on the figurine.
The Mianyang figurine and it’s
mai have been a strong
influence on my work now
since 1998.