Shigehisa Kuriyama, professor of cultural history at Harvard University, discusses the Inshoku yōjō kagami(Rules of Dietary Life), a Japanese woodblock print produced around 1850. The image appears to whimsically depict the traditional East Asian view of the body, but it in fact reflects the transformative impact of Western medicine and the rise of the money economy. Properly understood, says Kuriyama, no other single image reveals more about the hidden depths of embodied life in early modern Japan. This program is part of the East Asian Garden Lecture series.