Wakasugi Archive as an Onmyōdō Ritual Corpus
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 Archive as an Onmyōdō Ritual Corpus
Section titled “Layer 1: Wakasugi Archive as an Onmyōdō Ritual Corpus”Source file:
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The Kyoto archive describes the broader Wakasugi holdings as including:
- medieval Tsuchimikado/Abe documents;
- ritual manuals;
- petitions;
- calendrical records;
- astronomical diaries;
- estate documents;
- later Tsuchimikado institutional material.
The archive notes more than 700 Tsuchimikado-related items, including numerous ritual petitions and records.
Research implication
Section titled “Research implication”The Wakasugi collection should now become a core primary-source spine for the Onmyōdō volume rather than an occasional citation.