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Wakasugi Family Manuscript 73 — *Shō Henbai Sahō*

Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 18_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_III_v2_6.md.

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

This is a concrete medieval witness for small-scale henbai practice and is far more valuable than later generic summaries of “Onmyōdō magic walking.”

  1. Retrieve the full digitized image sequence from the Kyoto archive.
  2. Segment the scroll into discrete ritual units.
  3. Transcribe every heading, incantation, diagram and step notation.
  4. Identify which actions belong to:
    • small henbai;
    • bodily protection;
    • directional purification;
    • talismanic/sword action;
    • offerings.
  5. Compare against Wakasugi manuscript 74 and Yamashita’s 2007 transcription.
  6. Build a step-by-step ritual edition with image crop beside each line.

[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.