Everything about George Ohsawa totally explained
George Ohsawa, born, was the founder of the
Macrobiotic diet and
philosophy. When living in Europe he went by the pen names of
Musagendo Sakurazawa,
Nyoiti Sakurazawa, and
Yukikazu Sakurazawa. He also used the French first name
Georges while living in France, and his name is sometimes also given in this spelling.
Background
Ohsawa was born in a family whose father was descended directly from
samurai. But this was the period of the
Meiji Restoration and his family were very poor. He had to leave school after the compulsory high school as there was no money for higher education. This is when his spiritual path started. Around 1913 he met up with
Nishibata Manabu (a direct disciple of the late
Sagen Ishizuka) and studied with him in
Tokyo in the movement
Shoku-yo Kai.
Ohsawa also mentions in his books how he cured himself from tuberculosis at age 19 using what he knew about the ancient yin-yang concepts.
Later he travelled to
Europe, particularly
Paris,
France where he started to spread his philosophy (it is in this period he supposedly adopted his new pen name "Ohsawa", after the French "oh, ca va" which means "all right" or "I'm doing fine" as a reply to the question "how are you doing ?"). After several years he returned to Japan to start a foundation, and gather recruits for his now formalized philosophy. After drawing attention to himself during
World War II for his pacifist ideals, he moved his institution to a remote area in the mountains of
Yamanashi prefecture.
It is presumed that he got the western name for his movement from a book written by
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, a famous Prussian physician. It is known that he spent time in Europe with a descendant of Hufeland.
Several of his Japanese
disciples were also instrumental in disseminating Macrobiotics in the West. They are, in particular,
Herman Aihara in Germany, Roland Yasuhara in Belgium (where LIMA, the well-known manufacturer of macrobiotic products saw the light of day), and
Michio Kushi in the USA.
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