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Fig. 19. Shiishin kyuten tando zu I~ 1\ fL ,W: JJ ill lit.,j (Chart of the Way
of the Elixir in Nine Cycles for the Cultivation of Perfection). From
top to bottom along the vertical axis: upper Cinnabar Field (Muddy
Pellet, *niwan); eyes; tongue (Red Lotus, honglian HJli!); trachea
(Twelve-storied Pavilion, shi'e~chong Iou I· : <fi: fill); middle Cinnabar
Field (Crimson Palace,jianggong j;;'f '(1); lower Cinnar Field (*dantian);
Caudal Funnel (weiW ti 1/\1; see *sanguan). Manuscript in the Yoshida
Collection, Tenri Central Library, Tenri University, Japan. Reproduced
from Kato Chie 2002, 121.

cult of Myoken !/'J> 5~. Taoist elements can also be found within the doctrine
and ritual of Ise Shinto 1ft JjJ. fill @ and Yoshida Shinto r'i ft! NI ill .

Taoist influence, therefore, is demonstrably strong within Japanese culture,
It should be understood, however, that Taoism did not exert any fundamen-
tal influence on the formation of Japanese culture, and that the Japanese