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Encyclopaedia of Ancient, Obscure and Esoteric East Asian Religious Practices

Yoshikawa Family Local 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: Yoshikawa Family Local Onmyōdō Ritual Corpus

Section titled “Layer 1: Yoshikawa Family Local Onmyōdō Ritual Corpus”

Source file: 18_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_III_v2_6.md

Institution: National Museum of Japanese History
Research report: vol. 247, 2024
Class: EARLY-MODERN LOCAL ONMYŌDŌ

The Yoshikawa family of Nara combined:

  • calendar production/distribution;
  • local ritual practice;
  • client-based Onmyōdō services.

This archive is unusually valuable because most classic research focuses on court Onmyōdō.

Corpus-building task

Section titled “Corpus-building task”

For every Yoshikawa ritual text record:

  1. title;
  2. archive number;
  3. date;
  4. ritual type;
  5. client;
  6. deity;
  7. materials;
  8. petition text;
  9. offering sequence;
  10. location.