Hexagram 12: Pǐ (Standstill) · Takashima Ekidan

天地否 · 第 12 卦 · 中文版

12 Earth over Heaven, Stagnation The character “fǒu” is composed of “not” and “m...

Recorded Cases (6)

In the spring of the twenty-second year of Meiji, a friend and acquaintance, Mr. X, visited my mount (Six in the second place: Enveloping and submitting. For the petty man, auspicious; for the great man, obstruction yet success.)
More than twenty years have passed since the Meiji Restoration. Literary and scholarly culture has f (Six in the third place: Enveloped in shame.)
Mr. Nemoto Tōmei of Akita Prefecture was a great Confucian of recent times, learned in the Classics (Nine in the fourth place: There is a mandate, no blame; the kindred share blessings.)
In the fifth month of the eighteenth year of the Meiji era, Senzai Taketomi, a Shinto priest and sup (Nine in the fifth place: Bring the obstruction to an end; auspicious for the great person. Always keep in mind: “It may perish, it may perish”; tie it to a clump of mulberry roots.)
On a certain day in a certain month of the fifteenth year of the Meiji era, a prominent nobleman cam (Nine in the fifth place: Bring the obstruction to an end; auspicious for the great person. Always keep in mind: “It may perish, it may perish”; tie it to a clump of mulberry roots.)
A merchant from Yokohama came and said: “At present there is an important matter in my business. I w (Topmost nine: Overturn the obstruction; first obstruction, afterward joy.)