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Yoshikawa Family Onmyōdō Ritual Documents

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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.

Much scholarship overrepresents Heian court ritual. These records expose what regional onmyōji actually did later.

Catalogue every surviving:

  • saimon ritual text;
  • calendrical service;
  • purification;
  • talisman;
  • household rite;
  • client petition;
  • fee/offering;
  • deity;
  • date-selection procedure.