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Encyclopaedia of Ancient, Obscure and Esoteric East Asian Religious Practices

Auspicious Dates for Preparing the Seventy-Two Talismans

Overview

Section titled “Overview”

Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 22_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_VII_v3_0.md.

Research layers

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Layer 1: Auspicious Dates for Preparing the Seventy-Two Talismans

Section titled “Layer 1: Auspicious Dates for Preparing the Seventy-Two Talismans”

Source file: 22_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_VII_v3_0.md

Source: Chintaku Reifushin: Tenka Muhi Fukuju Hittoku (1912), scanned page corresponding to the section “Dates Used When Preparing Protective Amulets.”
Source state: PUBLIC-DOMAIN IMAGE VERIFIED

The page explicitly states that there are auspicious days for preparing the seventy-two talismans and presents the selection through calendrical designations.

What is now certain

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  1. The act of drawing/preparing a talisman was not ritually timeless.
  2. The practitioner was expected to consult a calendrical rule before preparation.
  3. The date-selection section is distinct from the talisman diagrams themselves.
  4. The same page also discusses purification/cleanliness before the operation.

Research handling

Section titled “Research handling”

The page must be transcribed character by character before publishing a definitive date list. Because the scan uses prewar orthography and vertical printing, uncertain sexagenary characters are to be marked rather than silently normalized.

Visual source

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Wikimedia Commons, page 70 preview of the 1912 public-domain scan.