Sanzaburo Kobayashi

Sanzaburo Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林 参三郎, Kobayashi Sansaburō; 1863 - 1926) was a Japanese surgeon and Shingon Buddhist who came to promote sitting seiza as a method of curing neurasthenia and other conditions. Kobayashi is the probable source of the Kobayashi Map, a flat earth map that was claimed in Hawaiian newspaper reports of 1907 to have been created in roughly 900 A.D. by Chinese priests.

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 * &mdash; "As a pioneer in psychosomatic medicine the author reports on the life and achievement of Sanzaburo Kobayashi, M.D. (1863-1926) who studied surgery in the United States and practised in Hawaii for about 15 years with great fame, and on returning to Japan learned seiza (sitting quietly) and cured his own neurasthenia and then helped his patients with the integration of modern medicine, seiza and religious belief."