Hexagram 21: Shì Kè (Biting Through) · Takashima Ekidan

火雷噬嗑 · 第 21 卦 · 中文版

21 Fire over Thunder, Shi He “Bite ,” means to gnaw; “join ,” means to come toge...

Recorded Cases (10)

In the spring of Meiji 23, a friend, someone known to me, came and said: “I now wish to join with ot (Initial Nine: Wearing a cangue that covers the toes; no blame.)
On the 25th day of the 10th month of Meiji 25, the scholars Shigeo Sugiura, Kumataro Kikuchi, Yujiro (Six in the second place: Biting tender meat until the nose is covered; no blame.)
Someone close to me came and said: “There is a promising business venture. Please divine whether it (Six in the second place: Biting tender meat until the nose is covered; no blame.)
A friend came and asked me to divine the outcome of a criminal case. The resulting hexagrams were Sh (Six in the third place: Biting dried meat, encountering poison; slight regret, no blame.)
A divination was conducted concerning whether the harvest in the autumn of Meiji 30 would be abundan (Six in the third place: Biting dried meat, encountering poison; slight regret, no blame.)
An acquaintance had become involved in a major commercial dispute and asked me to divine how it woul (Nine in the fourth place: Biting dried meat with bone; obtaining a metal arrow; favorable to arduous perseverance; auspicious.)
A divination was conducted concerning the rice harvest of Meiji 22. The resulting hexagrams were Shi (Six in the fifth place: Biting dried meat; obtaining yellow gold; perseverance is dangerous, but no blame.)
In December of the twenty-seventh year of the Meiji era, our army and navy were at Weihaiwei in Shan (Six in the fifth place: Biting dried meat; obtaining yellow gold; perseverance is dangerous, but no blame.)
A certain hotel proprietor on Kyo Street in Tokyo had long managed his family business with painstak (Top nine: Shackles weigh down the neck and obliterate the ears—misfortune.)
In April of the thirty-second year of the Meiji era, the wife of a certain nobleman was pregnant for (Top nine: Shackles weigh down the neck and obliterate the ears—misfortune.)

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