Elias Bouckaert is a PhD student at the department of Languages and Cultures. He specialises in medical and cultural history in Edo period Japan, particularly focussing on understandings of the human body and the internal organs. Crucial to this understanding is the early Chinese concept of the "five viscera and six entrails" 五臓六腑 (Ch: wuzang liufu, Jp: gozô roppu).
