Taizan Fukun Twelve-Seat Underworld Assembly
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 17_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_II_v2_5.md.
Research layers
Section titled “Research layers”Layer 1: Taizan Fukun Twelve-Seat Underworld Assembly
Section titled “Layer 1: Taizan Fukun Twelve-Seat Underworld Assembly”Source file:
17_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_II_v2_5.md
A historical imperial petition describes offerings to a twelve-seat assembly of underworld/celestial powers associated with Taizan Fukun.
Research significance
Section titled “Research significance”The rite is bureaucratic: the petitioner does not address an amorphous “death god,” but a structured administrative world of celestial and infernal officials.
Archive task
Section titled “Archive task”Build a prosopography of each office/deity named across surviving tojō:
- title;
- Chinese antecedent;
- Japanese transformation;
- bureaucratic function;
- ritual offering;
- petition formula.