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Japanese Scroll of Miraculous Comeback (kishi kaisei) — Calligraphy by Eri Takase
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Abstract

起死回生, kishi kaisei, to raise the dying and return the dead to life, is a Chinese phrase found in a collection of tales compiled in 978, said there of a woman immortal, and of a doctor's cure in a Tang physician's book as the Song editors of 1066 print it (an older copy of one of its recipes reads only raises the dead), and first dated in its own text in a coroner's forensic preface of 1247. It praised great doctors, served a Yuan Zen master as a figure for the cure of the mind, and in a letter of Wang Yangming's of 1527 was turned on a sick state. Kyoto printers set it in Chinese books by 1639, and its first known Japanese writer, among the dated items in the National Diet Library's full-text index, is Nakae Tōju 中江藤樹, praising four famous physicians in a book written about 1641 and printed by 1649. In Meiji Japan a patent medicine wore the phrase as a brand in 1877 and in 1886 Ozaki Yukio gave it to a marquis offering troops to a retainer of the fallen Tokugawa; by 1929 the baseball magazine 『野球界』 used it of the hit that saves a game, and by 1936 of a home run; through all of it the verb 起 has meant to raise the one who was going to live, not to wake the dead.

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Overview

The sense. The praise of a great doctor: he raises the dying and returns the dead to life. Together the four characters say the same thing twice, for strength, and the dictionaries record two senses: to bring a dying patient back, and, from that, to bring back what was about to be lost [1].

The words. Kishi kaisei. 起死 is to raise the dying. The 史記 tells how the world said the physician 扁鵲 could bring the dead to life, and how he answered: I cannot bring the dead to life; this one was going to live, and I made him rise [2]. That verb, rise, is the compound's 起; the sense wake up is wrong for it. 回生 is to return to life, a word Dōgen used of the endless cycle of dying and being born again [3].

The text in English. The first English word found paired with it is in an English-Japanese lexicon of 1891, and the first Japanese-English dictionary found to carry it is of 1896; those dictionaries give it first as the medicine and then as the figure; its one classical use read here in an English translation is the 菜根譚's.

The historical record

China, 10th to 14th century: the immortal's arts, the doctor's praise, and the Zen master's. The oldest firmly dated text read here with the four characters is a collection of tales compiled in 978, which says it of a woman immortal who practised thirty-six arts to great effect, raised the dying and returned the dead to life, and saved people beyond counting, naming as its source a Lives of Women Immortals, not identified here [4]. The same line, in the same words, stands in the 墉城集仙錄 of the Daoist canon, which carries the name of the Tang Daoist 杜光庭 (850–933); the editors of the 四庫全書 doubted that the copy they knew was his, and suspected it a later compilation from other books [4]. The same woman stands in the Lives of the Immortals attributed to 葛洪 (4th century), in the 四庫全書 text, where she raised the dead beyond counting, 起死無數, with no 回生 [5]. In medicine the phrase stands three times in the 千金要方 of 孫思邈 (7th century) as the Song editors of 1066 print it, in the 四庫全書 text, and a fourth time, in a note to a cure for beriberi, in another transcription of the book at Wikisource; the first closes a powder named for the Han physician 倉公, blown into the nose of a patient struck down senseless: this drug raises the dying and returns the dead to life [6]. Older texts read have the shorter phrase. The 外臺秘要 of 752 gives the same powder, credited to another book, and closes it this drug can raise the dead, 此藥能起死人 [7]. The 醫心方, compiled in Japan in 984 from books older than the Song editions, gives the beriberi cure of the note, two herbs boiled together, which the 1066 print credits to 蘇長史, under two names, the second 徐 and the first a glyph not settled here, and closes it this drug truly raises the dead, 此藥甚是起死 [8], where the 1066 note reads this is a remedy that raises the dying and returns the dead to life, 此起死回生方 [6]; and it quotes the 千金方's fennel cure for a swelling with the note a foreign divine remedy, come since the end of the Yuanjia era; used, it raises the dead, 用之起死人, where the 1066 print has 永嘉 for the era and 用之起死回生 [8]. Whether any of the four is 孫思邈's own wording is not shown; the one with an older copy of the 千金方 reads otherwise there, and so does the older text of the beriberi cure. The oldest use read whose own words are dated is a magistrate's: 宋慈, prefacing his handbook for coroners in 1247, hopes that its washing away of wrongs may have the same use as raising the dead to life [9]. A Yuan Zen master, 環溪惟一, answers the koan this mind is Buddha with a verse that makes the doctor's phrase a figure for the teaching: this mind is Buddha: arsenic and wolfsbane. It raises the dead and returns them to life, and not one dose is needed [10].

China, 15th to 18th century: ministers, novelists and moralists. A Ming minister closes his 1468 preface to the great Song materia medica with the wish that the art of raising the dead may have something to rely on [11]. Wang Yangming, writing to his friend 黃宗賢 in 1527, turns it on the state: the realm is like a body wasted with long illness; those on whom we rely to raise it from death are you gentlemen, and if you cannot cure your own ailments, how will you cure the realm's? [12]. In the 西遊記, Sun Wukong crosses the eastern sea seeking a way to raise the dead for a withered ginseng-fruit tree, and Guanyin draws the four characters as a charm in his palm with willow and sweet dew [13]. A Ming storyteller praises a healer as the 扁鵲 of old reborn: raising the dead is a lift of his hand [14]. The 菜根譚 of about 1600 puts it inside the mind: the moment a thought turns toward desire and is caught and turned back is the turning point where calamity becomes fortune and the dead are raised to life, and shame and repentance are the road by which the dead are raised [15]. The sceptics use the phrase too; a physician of 1757 asks whether the famous doctor really has the art of raising the dead [16].

Japan, 1639 to 1650: the Kyoto prints and the four physicians. The earliest known Japanese prints with the four characters, in the National Diet Library's holdings, are Chinese books printed in Kyoto. A Kyoto edition of 1639 of the prefaces to the Song materia medica sets 商輅's sentence with reading marks for a Japanese reader, and a Kyoto edition of 1643 of the record of the Yuan Zen master 中峯明本 calls the direct realization of the diamond body a divine medicine that raises the dead [17]. Its first known Japanese writer is 中江藤樹, in the 翁問答, written in 1640 and 1641 and printed by 1649, the print one encyclopedia calls the oldest regular edition (the 日国's entry gives a first edition of 1643); none earlier is known among the dated items in the National Diet Library's full-text index. Arguing that a general who has read every book of war but cannot adapt is like a doctor who has read every book of medicine but cannot cure, he names the models: the famous physicians 扁鵲, 倉公, 東恒 and 丹溪, who mastered medicine, trained the four diagnoses, cured every illness and won the merit of raising the dead [18]. The 1910 typeset prints 東恒 for 東垣, the name taken by 李杲, a physician of the Jin and Yuan, and the first character of 丹溪 is broken on its leaf. The word stays with the doctors through the Edo period: the court physicians at Hideyoshi's deathbed in 1598 offered the art of raising the dead in 宇佐美定祐's chronicle of the Korean war; the lives of physicians use it as their formula, from 松下見林's life of the physician 見宜 of 1683 to the entries on the court doctor 山脇玄心 and on 頴川入徳, a naturalized Chinese pediatrician, in the biographical dictionary 大日本人名辞書 from its first edition of 1886; a smallpox prescription is named for it [19].

Meiji: the quack, the brand, the nation. In the 1880s the word belongs to medicine and its shadow: a cholera treatise, a translated exposé of American patent-medicine puffery (revive and prolong life, raise the dead, one drug for every disease), a treatise on schools in which the physician who works the art of raising the dead makes his name at once, an illustrated 西遊記, and a Merchant of Venice in which Antonio's rescue is the debt of a life raised from death [20]. Two uses in the same decade set the word's two modern senses. A patent medicine took it for a name: 守田治兵衛's 寶丹, a restorative sold at Ikenohata in Edo since 1862, was exhibited as 起死回生寶丹 in 1877, and in 1880 a full-page advertisement for its 寳丹水, from the Tokyo shop of 岩浪長藏 that sold it, showed workmen on scaffolding hoisting those three characters above a text headed 起死回生寳丹水 [21]. And in Ozaki Yukio's 新日本 of 1886 a marquis, telling the narrator, a retainer of the overthrown Tokugawa, that Napoleon III means to lend him troops to win back what was lost, says: the chance to raise the dead is today only; once it is gone it will not come again [22]. In the National Diet Library's public-domain full-text index the books carrying the word rise from a dozen in the 1870s to 737 in the 1930s, a tenth of them in medicine, a third in the social sciences, and the rest across history, religion and fiction [23].

The dictionaries, and the home run. The Meiji dictionaries carry it as an example (under to revive, 1897; under 回生, 1906) and bracket it as a phrase in 1908: to bring the dead back to life [24]. The 日国 keeps the doctor first and the figure second; 大辞泉 today has only the figure, to set on its feet what was about to be lost [1]. The baseball sense is prewar. In the magazine 『野球界』 a two-base hit is spoken of as 起死回生の藥, the medicine that raises the dead, in December 1929, a walk is the walk that raises the dead for Kwansei in March 1930, and in December 1936 someone has come alive again since the 起死回生のホームラン in the game against Hōsei [25].

What is not a source. Not a Buddhist term: the Zen verse borrows the doctor's phrase, and 回生 alone is the word Dōgen used. Not the 史記 verbatim: the 史記 gives the idea and the verb, not the four characters. Not a Japanese coinage: every part of it is Chinese and the phrase is in Chinese medical books centuries before 1639. Not a baseball word by origin: the home run is the newest sense, not the oldest.

The word in English

1891. An English-Japanese lexicon. The first English word found paired with it is medical: the English-Japanese lexicon translated by Y. Shimada 島田豊 and revised by S. Sugiura, J. Matsushita and A. Manase, in the supplement of its sixth edition, of 1891, glosses Re-gĕn'er-a-tory, a. as 起死回生ノ, 復活カアル, 再生セシムル, raising the dead, having the power of revival, regenerating [26]. Its second edition, of 1888, has no supplement, and under Raising gives the parts apart, 蘇生, 起死, 回生, revival, raising the dead, return to life.

1896. Brinkley's 和英大辞典. The first Japanese-English dictionary found to carry it is Brinkley's: under kishi, 起死, recovering from death; revival, it gives Kishi kwaisei no kusuri, 起死回生ノ藥, a medicine which has the effect of bringing people to life again [27]. The 和英大辞林 of 1909 has no entry for it.

1918. 武信和英大辞典. 武信由太郎's dictionary for 研究社 enters it under 起死 as the medicine: 起死囘生の靈藥, a wonderful medicine possess'd of the virtue of reviving the dead [28]. 竹原常太's スタンダード和英大辞典 (1928; first edition 1924, not read) makes it an adjective, miraculous; wonderful; magical, with a wonderful (magical) cure and a patent-medicine testimonial credited to Mail (London): I am delighted to state that they are truly magical in their effect [29].

1928. 斎藤和英大辞典. 斎藤和英 (1928): resuscitation; revival, with a medicine to revive the dead; a magical medicine [30]. 研究社's later dictionary keeps 武信's medicine, shortened (a wonderful medicine capable of reviving the dead; a miracle drug), and adds the two modern examples: hit a homer to pull the game out of the fire and devise a means of pulling back from the brink of disaster [31]. EDR and JST give revival and resuscitation [32]. JMdict: revival from the brink of death; recovering from a hopeless situation; resuscitation; revitalization [33].

The 菜根譚 in English. William Scott Wilson renders the 菜根譚's turning point: This is precisely the time / To change disaster into fortune, / To raise the dead and bring them back to life [34].

Today. None of the dictionaries carries miraculous comeback. The word has two lives, and the dictionaries have chosen between them. The first is the physician's, from the Song prints of the Tang recipes and the 1247 preface through 藤樹's four doctors to the biographical dictionaries of 1921: what a great doctor does, and what a drug is praised or mocked for doing. The second is the figure: the Yuan Zen verse, Wang Yangming's sick realm, the 菜根譚's turning thought, Ozaki's fallen shogunate, the modern 策 and 秘策, the hit in the ninth. The figure is old, Yuan at the latest; among the Japanese books found here before Meiji, the uses are the doctors'. What both lives keep is 扁鵲's correction: he did not raise the dead; he raised the one who was going to live. That is why the word is a comeback and not a resurrection.

A reading

The word is the physician's, and the comeback follows from it. Its miracle has a source: 扁鵲's I made him rise, which is why the word fits a recovery and not a funeral, and 藤樹's four physicians, the word's first company in a Japanese writer's hand. Read literally it is raise the dying, return the dead to life, not wake from death.

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Japanese Scrolls by Master Calligrapher Eri Takase

Japanese Scroll of Miraculous Comeback (kishi kaisei) in a block font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Japanese Scroll of Miraculous Comeback (kishi kaisei) in a cursive font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Japanese Scroll of Miraculous Comeback (kishi kaisei) in Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase's own style (Eri's Choice)
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Japanese Scroll of Miraculous Comeback (kishi kaisei) in a semi-cursive font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Sources not seen

The 新雕孫真人千金方, a printing of the 千金方 from before the Song editors' revision of 1066, in a Japanese copy of twenty chapters; not opened. It would show whether the four characters stand in the 千金方 before 1066.

The 翁問答 in its prints of 1649 and 1650, which the union catalogue of classical books lists in many copies, several with images; the passage is read here in the typeset of 1910. The first print would show the sentence as the first readers had it.

本草序例鈔, an undated manuscript commentary on the prefaces, in the National Diet Library, which glosses the phrase in Japanese; its leaves carry no date. If it is older than the 翁問答, it is the first Japanese writing on the word.

『野球界』, December 1929, March 1930 and December 1936, read in the full-text index's excerpts only; the library serves them only in Japan. They would give the baseball sentences whole.

Isobe Yaichirō, Musings of a Chinese Vegetarian, 1926, the first English translation of the 菜根譚 known here; not seen. It would give the oldest English rendering of the 菜根譚's line.

A reader with access to any of these is invited to write to Takase Studios at Tim@Takase.com.

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  13. 西遊記, 第26回, at zh.wikisource. https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/西遊記/第026回
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  16. 徐大椿, 醫學源流論, 1757, Edo manuscript copy, scan 142 (text layer). https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/2536213/1/142
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  18. 中江藤樹, 翁問答, 下巻, 1910 typeset, scan 58; 「翁問答」, デジタル大辞泉, 精選版 日本国語大辞典, 日本大百科全書 and 改訂新版 世界大百科事典, at kotobank; 「李杲」, 改訂新版 世界大百科事典, and 「李東垣」, 日本大百科全書, at kotobank. https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/756192/1/58 · https://kotobank.jp/word/翁問答 · https://kotobank.jp/word/李杲 · https://kotobank.jp/word/李東垣
  19. 宇佐美定祐, 朝鮮征伐記, manuscript, scan 31; 松下見林, 見宜翁伝, 1683, scan 17; 小宮山楓軒, 楓軒史料, manuscript, scans 6 and 9 (text layer); 本郷正豊, 医道日用綱目, 1873 print; 嵯峨正作, 大日本人名辞書, 1886, scans 254 (山脇玄心) and 382 (頴川入德). https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/11223234/1/31 · https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/2536070/1/17 · https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/2560384/1/6 · https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/2560384/1/9 · https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/833098 · https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/779851/1/254 · https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/779851/1/382
  20. 虎烈剌病賊征討論, 1880, p. 47, scan 40; 西洋穴探 (McCabe, 加藤政之助訳), 1880, scan 32 (text layer); 学校通論 (箕作麟祥訳), 1882, scan 284; 絵本西遊記全伝, 1882–83, scan 22; 人肉質入裁判 (井上勤訳, Merchant of Venice), 1886, scan 33. https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/835167/1/40 · https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/798609/1/32 · https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/808285/1/284 · https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/877885/1/22 · https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/896972/1/33
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  27. エフ・ブリンクリー (F. Brinkley) 等編, 和英大辞典, 三省堂, 1896, p. 691, scan 364. https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/903159/1/364
  28. 武信由太郎, 武信和英大辞典, 研究社, 1918, scan 522. https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/925665/1/522
  29. 竹原常太, スタンダード和英大辞典, 宝文館, 1928, scan 303; the copy read is the thirty-fifth printing of 1928, of the revised and enlarged edition of 1926; first published 1924, by its colophon. https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1126806/1/303
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  33. JMdict (EDRDG), 「起死回生」, at jisho.org. https://jisho.org/word/起死回生
  34. William Scott Wilson, tr., Master of the Three Ways: Reflections of a Chinese Sage on Living a Satisfying Life, Shambhala, 2012 (translation © 2009; first published as The Unencumbered Spirit), § 86.

Authors

Tim Jackowski (Systems Architect, Takase Studios, LLC) · 典 Ten (Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1, Sonnet 5 and Opus 5.5, Takase Studios, LLC)

AI written · Ten wrote the history. Tim Jackowski commissioned it and answers for it.

Checked · Claude Sonnet (Anthropic), 2026-09-15, citations — every claim tested at its address; some resolve; a couple resolve but differ — the share was the account's own arithmetic, re-derived and corrected; the glyph re-read at the leaf, a third form neither side had; the rest not openable

Research depth: step 3 of our 10-step ladder, foundation complete · October 2026

Cite as: Tim Jackowski and Ten, "Philology of 起死回生 (kishi kaisei)," Takase Studios, 2026, https://takase.com/library/philology/kishi-kaisei.