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無病息災 mubyō sokusai Good Health, Free from Harm

無病息災 (mubyō sokusai), good health, is in its oldest witness what the precious vase of the Medicine Buddha is tilted to give, in a Hakone shrine's account of 1191, and its history runs through a Nara monk's diary, a Noh god, a Jizō tale and the New Year counting song of the Daikoku dancers to a children's ball-song, and to an essay of 1938 that wished instead for one illness.

Japanese Scroll of Good Health, Free from Harm (mubyō sokusai) — Calligraphy by Eri Takase
Good Health, Free from Harm (mubyō sokusai)

無病息災 (mubyō sokusai): good health, being well and free from illness. A hand-brushed hanging scroll by Master Calligrapher Eri Takase on traditional Japanese paper.

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Abstract

無病息災, mubyō sokusai, is good health, being well and free from illness, as the dictionaries define it, and it is used as a wish, prayed for at shrines and at the New Year. The phrase is Japanese, joining 無病, without illness, to 息災, the name of an esoteric Buddhist rite for stopping calamity, which by the eleventh century also meant simply being well; in its oldest dated witness in the Diet Library's full text, the Hakone shrine's account of itself of 1191, the precious vase of the King of Healing, the Medicine Buddha, is tilted to give medicine to those who seek it, and the Medicine Buddha is tied to it again in a Noh play and in a tale of Jizō printed in 1653. A monk of Kōfukuji prays for it in his diary and in 1543 uses it of a man who had simply been well, and by 1676 it is the sixth line of the New Year counting song of the Daikoku dancers, which Lafcadio Hearn printed in 1901 as a children's ball-song. English kept the two halves apart: the translators of prayers and songs wrote free from sickness and calamity, and the dictionaries wrote sound health.

Overview

The sense. The デジタル大辞泉 gives 無病息災 as 病気をしないで健康であること, being healthy, without falling ill [1]. The 精選版 日本国語大辞典 gives it as a noun and an adjectival noun: 病気もせず、健康であること。達者であること。また、そのさま, being healthy, without illness; being hale; or that state [1]. The 四字熟語を知る辞典 gives the same sense, with a note that 「息災」は健康であること, 息災 means being healthy, and a modern example from Terada Torahiko 寺田寅彦 in 1908, of a brother-in-law who had made his good health something of a boast, 無病息災を売物のようにしていた, until a serious illness put him in hospital [1]. JMdict gives sound health [2]. Japanese Wiktionary gives 病気をしなくて健康なこと, with the example 一年間無病息災であることを願う, to wish for a year of good health, and English Wiktionary gives good health [3]. So every dictionary read here defines a state, being well, and none defines a wish; the wish is how the phrase is used, with 祈る or 願う. Sound health drops the Buddhist second half, 息災, calamity stopped. The kin word 一病息災, one illness and well, the idea that a person with one ailment takes more care and lives longer, is formed from it, the 日本国語大辞典 says, and its earliest citation is 遠藤周作's 四十歳の男 of 1964 [4].

The words. 無病, mubyō, is being without illness; the 日本国語大辞典's earliest citation is a commentary on the 荘子 copied in 1530 [5]. 息災, sokusai, is the Japanese reading of a Buddhist word. The 日本国語大辞典 gives it as the translation of the Sanskrit śāntika, with 「息」はとどめる意, 息 means to stop, and two senses: first, to remove the calamities of living beings by the power of buddhas or gods, from 960; second, being hale and healthy, 達者であること。健康であること。無事, from the 栄花物語 of the eleventh century [6]. The 息災法 is the rite itself, one of the kinds of esoteric Buddhist ritual, performed facing north with everything white [7]. 無病息災 joins the two words, without illness, calamity stopped; the second half had already come to mean what the first half says.

The text in English. The first Japanese-English dictionary, Hepburn's of 1867, has 息災 with both halves and with the prayer: Free from sickness, misfortune or evil. — ni kurash'te oru, to live free from all calamity. — ni o-mamori kudasare, preserve me from evil (in praying) [8]. Brinkley's dictionary of 1896 gives the four characters as healthy and sound [9]. Lafcadio Hearn, translating a ball-song in 1901, gives free from all sickness and calamity [10]. The Kenkyusha dictionary in its American printing of 1942 gives be in sound (good) health; be healthy and sound; be hale and hearty [11]; Nelson's character dictionary of 1974 gives perfect health [12]; a dictionary of idioms in 2002 gives both, the words as without sickness, stopping devastation and the sense as as fit as a fiddle, hale and hearty, in sound (good) health [13]. JMdict today gives sound health [2].

The historical record

723–736, by CBETA's dating. The 吽迦陀野儀軌, an esoteric ritual text of the Tang, translated into Chinese by Vajrabodhi 金剛智. The rite and its formula, in the Chinese canon: 若欲作息災，當加息災延命句, if you would perform the stopping of calamity, add the phrase for stopping calamity and lengthening life [14]. 息災 here is a rite, and 息災延命, calamity stopped, life lengthened, is a formula said in it.

Tenth to fourteenth centuries. 息災 in Japanese. The 日本国語大辞典's earliest citation for the rite is the 日本紀略 for 960, a ritual 為息灾也, for the stopping of calamity; for the plain sense, being well, the 栄花物語, where prayers are offered for the 御そくさい, the good health, of an empress dowager and a princess; and Kenkō's 徒然草 of about 1331 says 息災なる人も、目の前に大事の病者となりて, even a man in good health, before your eyes, becomes gravely ill [6]. The formula 息災延命 is in a prayer by 大江匡衡 collected in the 本朝文粋 of about 1060, which the dictionary quotes: 復誓護左府殿下。息災延命。千秋万歳, and I vow to guard his lordship the Minister of the Left: calamity stopped, life lengthened, a thousand autumns and ten thousand years [15].

1191. The 筥根山縁起并序, the account of the Hakone shrine, by the monk 信救. The shrine's account of itself promises each kind of pilgrim what he seeks, and to one kind [16]:

爲求无病息災者。傾醫王寶瓶。而與如意良藥矣。

To those who seek to be free of illness and calamity, it tilts the precious vase of the King of Healing, and gives them the wish-granting good medicine. The King of Healing, 醫王, is the Medicine Buddha, 薬師如来, whom the dictionaries also call 医王仏 and who holds a medicine jar in his left hand [17]. The text is in the 群書類従, whose typeset of 1898 prints the colophon, read at the leaf [16]:

建久二年七月廿五日 別當行實 南都興福寺住侶信救誌焉。

The twenty-fifth day of the seventh month of 建久2 (1191). The steward 行實. Written by 信救, a monk resident at Kōfukuji in Nara. The 群書類従 writes the first character 无, the variant form; its woodblock print does so too [18]. The shrine's own edition of 1930 takes as its base the shrine's manuscript in plain Chinese, 白文, and collates the 群書類従 against it, 本書は社藏書寫本(白文)を以て底本とし、之に群書類從本を以て校合し異點を鼇頭に掲げました, this edition takes the manuscript held by the shrine as its base, collates the 群書類従 text against it, and gives the differences in the head margin [19]. Its text reads 爲求無病息災者。傾醫王寶瓶, and its head note says 無、无ニ作ル以下同シ, 無: the 群書類従 writes 无, here and below [19]. So the shrine's manuscript, as the 1930 editors read it, writes 無病息災, the scroll's own characters. Ōkubo Azumi's study of 2014 describes two manuscripts at the shrine: the copy in plain Chinese, of about the middle of the Muromachi period and the oldest that survives, and a copy with reading marks dated 1464, both carrying the colophon of 1191; she gives the account to 信救, also called 覚明, writing at the request of the steward 行実 [20]. The text is therefore dated 1191 by its colophon and known from copies of the fifteenth century. It is the oldest dated witness of 無病息災 in the Diet Library's full text.

1539 to 1575. The 多聞院日記, the diary kept at the 多聞院 of Kōfukuji. The entries of these years are by the monk 英俊 (1518–1596) [21]. The original is lost, and the edition of 1935 follows a copy of about the Kyōhō years (1716–36) kept at Kōfukuji, 興福寺に所藏せらるゝ享保前後の寫本 [21]. In the eighth year of 天文 (1539), on the eighth day of what the editor takes to be the eleventh month, a week of abstinence from salt is begun [21]:

爲祈無病息災、智惠利根、惣而者諸人安穩、別而ハ一類無病長壽、殊ニハ加行中無病息災、所作成弁

To pray for freedom from illness and calamity, and for wisdom and sharp wits; for everyone, peace; for my own people, health and long life; and above all, freedom from illness and calamity through the training period, and the practice accomplished. In 1542, on the eleventh day of the first month, a seclusion is begun, and among its wishes are 衆人愛敬、無病息災、富裕自在, the love and respect of all, freedom from illness and calamity, wealth at will [21]. On the second day of the fourth month of 1543 the diary records that the monk 宗覚房 of 新禅院 died suddenly that afternoon [21]:

未五十有余之人、無病息災ニアリシカ俄風ニテ死去云〻、あさまし〳〵

A man still only fifty-odd, who had been in good health, dead of a sudden illness, a 風, they say. How wretched. Here the phrase is no prayer: it describes a man who was well, the dictionaries' sense, three years before the dictionary's first example. On the eleventh day of the eighth month of 1575, of a craftsman who died suddenly at about eighty-four: 無病息災頓煩死ハ浦山敷事也, to be well and then die after a short illness is a thing to envy [22].

About 1546, by the 日本国語大辞典. The Noh 寝覚. The dictionary's earliest citation for 無病息災. The god of the play appears, and the dictionary quotes him: 「抑もこれは、医王仏の化現。無病息災の方便の為、三帰の翁仮に現れ出でたるなり」, I am the Medicine King made manifest; as a means to freedom from illness and calamity, I appeared for a time as the Old Man of the Three Returns [1]. The play is a 脇能 of the Kanze school, author unknown, once called 三帰: the emperor of the Engi era sends a messenger to 寝覚の床 in Shinano for the old man's medicine of long life [23]. The date is the dictionary's; its footing was not found (Notes). The Medicine King is again the one who appears for it.

1644. The 犬子集, an anthology of haikai linked verse edited by 松江重頼. In the copy read, which carries the date 寛永廿壱, 1644, at the end of its count of verses, a link sets the phrase beside the crane [24]:

常盤乃子共無病息災

松の木に此ほと鶴の巣をくみし

The evergreen's children, free of illness and calamity. / In the pine tree, lately, a crane has built its nest. The wish has joined the emblems of long life, the pine and the crane.

1653. The 愛宕地蔵之物語, a tale of the Jizō of Mount Atago, printed in Kyoto. Its colophon reads 承應二年癸巳初冬吉辰日, the tenth month of 1653 [25]. In the second volume the Medicine Buddha gives once more [25]:

此仏ハ一切衆生の病を。のぞかんために。もち給へる……より。もろ〳〵のくすりをとりいだして三千大千世界に。毎日そゝき給ふなり。信ずる人ハ無病息災なるへし。

This buddha, to take away the illness of all living beings, takes all manner of medicine from the … he holds, and pours it over the whole universe every day. Those who believe will be free of illness and calamity. The word elided is the vessel, つぼ or つか; it is not settled at the leaf (Notes).

1661. The 替花伝秘書, a manual of flower arrangement. Its colophon reads 寛文元年辛丑九月吉日, 1661 [26]. It says: 納受あり。其身ハ無病息災也, it is accepted, and that person is free of illness and calamity [26].

1676. The 淋敷座之慰, a manuscript collection of songs. Its colophon is dated 延宝四丙辰八月二日, the second day of the eighth month of 1676 [27]. It writes down the song of the Daikoku dancers under the heading 昔大黒舞, the Daikoku dance of old, which opens 大黒殿の能には一に俵ふまへて, Lord Daikoku's arts: one, he stands on rice bales, and counts to ten; its sixth and seventh lines read 六ツ無病息災に and 七ツ何事なふして, six, free of illness and calamity; seven, nothing amiss [27]. A parody follows it at once in the same manuscript, so the song was well enough known in 1676 to be turned. The Daikoku dancers, G. W. Sargent explains in his translation of Saikaku's The Japanese Family Storehouse, were New Year street performers in the masks of the god of luck, going from house to house with the song; he translates this version, six, he's free from sickness and disaster [28]. This is the oldest dated witness of the song in the Diet Library's full text.

The seventeenth century. The song in two tales. Two tales of the kind called 室町物語 end with the song, and both are known from copies of the Edo period: the 大黒舞 from two manuscripts the National Institute of Japanese Literature dates to the early Edo period, 梅津長者物語 from copies of which the dated ones are of the nineteenth century [29][30]. One is 梅津長者物語, whose text, in the edition of Hiraide Kōjirō 平出鏗二郎 of 1908, reads 六無ひやうそくさいに、七何事なくして [31]. Hiraide dates the tale by the song, against an older view that took its costumes for Muromachi [31]:

余はその繪樣といひ、大黑舞の唱歌を載せ、貧乏神の如きを揭ぐるに考へて、德川初期末のものならんかと思ふ。

For my part, considering its pictures, that it carries the song of the Daikoku dance, and that it shows such a figure as the god of poverty, I think it may belong to the end of the early Tokugawa period. The other is the tale of the Daikoku dance itself, 大黒舞, in which 大黒天 rewards a dutiful son; Hiraide's survey of 1909 quotes its last lines, 六つ無病息災に、七つ何事ないやうに [32]. Neither tale is dated more closely, and the song in them is no older, on this evidence, than the seventeenth century.

1901. The ball-song. Lafcadio Hearn prints a ball-song of Shinano, 信濃, in romaji: Daikoku-Sama, to iu hito wa … Mutsu, mubyō sokusai ni, and renders the line sixthly, that the people may be free from all sickness and calamity [10]. The New Year song of the Daikoku dancers had become a children's song by the time it reached English. Hearn writes under it that, excepting the first four lines, the text is almost, word-for-word, the text of an old samurai-prayer, — the household prayer which every warrior repeated daily [10]; he names no source, and none was found.

1902. A New Year custom. Ernest W. Clement, on the Japanese calendar, from a Japanese booklet on superstitions: If one swallows seven grains of red beans (azuki) and one go of sake before the hour of the ox on the first day of the year, he will be free from sickness and calamity throughout the year [33]. This is the oldest witness in the Internet Archive's full text and the Diet Library's that ties a custom of the year to the wish; the Japanese booklet behind it was not seen.

1938. 一病息災. An essay titled 一病息災 by 淡路圓治郎 appeared in 文藝春秋 in November 1938, and, by the Diet Library's search snippet, set it against 無病息災: many people are glad of good health, it says, but one illness has a charm not easily given up [34]. The same sentence is in his book of 1940 [35]. That is twenty-six years before the 日本国語大辞典's earliest citation, 遠藤周作's 四十歳の男 of 1964 [4]. By then the phrase was plain enough to be played on.

What is not a source. The Chinese canon is not the source of the phrase. In CBETA's full text, 無病息災 occurs in no classical text of the Taishō canon or the 卍續藏; its only hits are in Chinese translations of texts of the Pali canon, which CBETA carries in its supplements, such as the greeting 無病息災．氣力安住 in a version of the 長部 [36]. What the canon holds is 息災 and 息災延命, as rites [14]. The New Year rice-gruel and summer purification customs that a modern reader may connect with the phrase are tied in the dictionaries to driving off evil, 邪気を払う, and to escaping epidemic illness, not to 無病息災: the 茅の輪 [37], the 小豆粥 [38] and the 七草粥 [39]. And Hearn's old samurai-prayer is his claim alone [10].

The phrase in English

1867. James Curtis Hepburn, A Japanese and English Dictionary. SOKU-SAI 息災: Free from sickness, misfortune or evil. — ni kurash'te oru, to live free from all calamity. — ni o-mamori kudasare, preserve me from evil (in praying) [8]. The four characters have no entry; 無病 appears only as a synonym, MUBIYO, under TSUTSUGANAI, Well, free from sickness, safe, free from harm, or accident [8].

1896. F. Brinkley and others, An Unabridged Japanese-English Dictionary. Mubyō sokusai, healthy and sound, under MUBYŌ, Not sick; healthy; having a clean bill of health; sound as a bell; and Sokusai … Free from misfortune; safe. Sokusai emmei, peaceful and long-lived [9].

1901. Lafcadio Hearn, A Japanese Miscellany, pp. 200–201. Mutsu, mubyō sokusai ni, sixthly, that the people may be free from all sickness and calamity [10]. Of the English read for this history, on the shelf and in the Internet Archive's full text, this is the oldest rendering of the four characters, and it keeps both halves. His eighthly, that our house may be victorious, with in war added in brackets, renders yashiki wo tairagete, 屋敷を平らげて [10]. 平らげる can mean to subdue, but the same line in 梅津長者物語 reads 八屋しきをひろめて, eight, the estate enlarged [31], so the line is about the house and its ground, not about war.

1902. Ernest W. Clement. Free from sickness and calamity throughout the year [33].

1942. Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, the American printing. Be in sound (good) health; be healthy and sound; be hale and hearty [11].

1959. G. W. Sargent, The Japanese Family Storehouse, p. 167. The 1676 song: six, he's free from sickness and disaster [28].

1968 to 2002. The dictionaries. Corwin's dictionary of idiomatic equivalents (1968): hale and hearty condition [40]. Kenkyusha's fourth edition (1974): be in the pink of health, and be hale and hearty of an old person [41]. Nelson (1974): perfect health [12]. Garrison and others (2002): without sickness, stopping devastation, then as fit as a fiddle, hale and hearty, in sound (good) health, with the example of a visit to a shrine at the New Year, I prayed that my family would remain hale and hearty for the coming twelve months [13].

1988. A. L. Sadler, Code of the Samurai. His English of the samurai primer 武道初心集 by Daidōji Yūzan 大道寺友山 (1639–1730), in print by 1988: a man mindful every day that he must die will keep himself free from disease and calamity, and will enjoy a long life [42].

Today: JMdict gives sound health [2], and English Wiktionary good health [3]. The English has split as the Japanese uses split. The dictionaries render the state and drop the calamity; the translators of songs and prayers keep both halves.

A reading

In its three oldest witnesses that are not a diary, 無病息災 is tied to the Medicine Buddha. In the Hakone account of 1191 the vase of the King of Healing is tilted to give medicine to those who seek it [16][19]; in the Noh 寝覚, as the dictionary quotes it, the god who appears is the Medicine King made manifest, as a means to it [1]; in the Jizō tale of 1653 he pours medicine over the world every day, and those who believe will have it [25]. Between those, a monk of Kōfukuji prays for it for himself and his people, and in 1543 uses it, without any prayer, of a man of fifty-odd who had simply been well until a sudden illness killed him [21]. I read the phrase's history as a descent from the Buddha's gift to the plain state, and then back up into a wish. By 1676 it is the sixth line of a New Year song, between as ever and nothing amiss [32][27][31], and it reaches English as a children's ball-song [10]. What the song asks for is not a cure. It asks that nothing happen. So I read 無病息災 as a wish for the ordinary, the year that passes without illness or mishap, made by the well, for themselves and for the people they love; this is why the dictionaries define it as a state and the people use it as a prayer, and why it is not a get-well wish for someone already ill. The essay of 1938 that preferred one illness to none could make its joke only because the phrase had become that ordinary [34]. And the English that keeps calamity beside sickness keeps the half that the Buddhist word brought in: 息災, the stopping of calamity, which had come to mean being well because being well is what calamity stopped looks like.

Notes

Sources not seen

The shrine's manuscripts of the 筥根山縁起并序 (箱根神社蔵, the copy in plain Chinese of about the middle of the Muromachi period, and the copy with reading marks of 1464). No open image of either was found; 箱根神社大系 1930 promises photographs of the 1464 copy in a 下巻 寶物編, not found in the Diet Library. They would settle the 無 of the shrine's copy at the leaf.

名古屋市博物館, 『無病息災 : 病を克服する知恵と祈り』, exhibition catalogue, 2001; 八王子市郷土資料館, 『家内安全・無病息災 : 庶民の願い』, exhibition catalogue, 2011; 美甘由紀子, on the 2011 exhibition, 『民具研究』, 2012. The scholarly treatments of 無病息災 as the prayer of ema and amulets; they would settle when and where the modern prayer custom took its present form.

南伝大蔵経, 長部經典 一 (vol. 6), 1935; National Diet Library item 1263593. Whether the Japanese translation of the Pali greeting uses 無病息災; not served outside Japan.

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

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