Wakasugi Family Manuscript 73 — *Shō Henbai Sahō*
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 18_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_III_v2_6.md.
Research layers
Section titled “Research layers”Layer 1: Wakasugi Family Manuscript 73 — Shō Henbai Sahō
Section titled “Layer 1: Wakasugi Family Manuscript 73 — Shō Henbai Sahō”Source file:
18_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_III_v2_6.md
Archive: Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives, Wakasugi Family Documents
Document no.: 73
Title: 小反閇作法
Copy date: 1250-06-23 (Kencho 2)
Form: vertical joined-paper scroll
Dimensions: 30.0 × 643.1 cm
Access: unrestricted catalogue entry; digitized images noted by archive
Importance
Section titled “Importance”This is a concrete medieval witness for small-scale henbai practice and is far more valuable than later generic summaries of “Onmyōdō magic walking.”
Research workflow
Section titled “Research workflow”- Retrieve the full digitized image sequence from the Kyoto archive.
- Segment the scroll into discrete ritual units.
- Transcribe every heading, incantation, diagram and step notation.
- Identify which actions belong to:
- small henbai;
- bodily protection;
- directional purification;
- talismanic/sword action;
- offerings.
- Compare against Wakasugi manuscript 74 and Yamashita’s 2007 transcription.
- Build a step-by-step ritual edition with image crop beside each line.
Visual reference
Section titled “Visual reference”[Image reference — not packaged] Wakasugi-family Onmyōdō ritual diagram (images/wakasugi_onmyodo_grid_uho_reference.jpg)
This image is a secondary reproduction of a Wakasugi-family ritual manuscript page and is included as a visual research reference, not as a substitute for the archive’s own high-resolution scan.