Yoshikawa Family Onmyōdō Ritual Documents
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: Yoshikawa Family Onmyōdō Ritual Documents
Section titled “Layer 1: Yoshikawa Family Onmyōdō Ritual Documents”Source file:
17_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_II_v2_5.md
Japanese: 奈良暦師吉川家文書
Class: EARLY-MODERN LOCAL ONMYŌDŌ ARCHIVE
A National Museum of Japanese History study identifies the Yoshikawa family documents as a rare archive of everyday/local Onmyōdō ritual practice in Nara, not merely court or shogunal rites.
Importance
Section titled “Importance”Much scholarship overrepresents Heian court ritual. These records expose what regional onmyōji actually did later.
Extraction queue
Section titled “Extraction queue”Catalogue every surviving:
- saimon ritual text;
- calendrical service;
- purification;
- talisman;
- household rite;
- client petition;
- fee/offering;
- deity;
- date-selection procedure.