Hexagram 23: Bō (Splitting Apart) · Takashima Ekidan

山地剥 · 第 23 卦 · 中文版

Mountain over Earth, Stripping: It is unfavorable to have somewhere to go.

Recorded Cases (7)

In the winter of Meiji 17, a certain foreign-silver merchant whom I knew came and asked for a divina (Six in the first place: Stripping the bed at the feet. Destroying the true and upright: misfortune.)
A gentleman came and asked for a divination about his fortune. The resulting hexagrams were Bo chang (Six in the second place: Stripping the bed at the frame. Destroying the upright: misfortune.)
In the winter of Meiji 17, a certain foreign-silver merchant from Yokohama came and asked for a divi (Six in the third place: Stripping away; no blame.)
A wealthy merchant came and asked for a divination about his fortune; the resulting hexagrams were S (Six in the fourth place: Stripping the bed down to the skin. Misfortune.)
Mr. Mori Jotaro of Sakai-cho, Yokohama, a clerk for a British foreign merchant, suffered abdominal p (Six in the fifth place: A string of fish. The palace women receive favor. Nothing is unfavorable.)
On the twenty-eighth day of the third month of 1899, a divination was performed concerning clear or (Six in the fifth place: A string of fish. The palace women receive favor. Nothing is unfavorable.)
In 1890, I cast for the national institution of the Genrōin and obtained Stripping changing to Kun (Nine at the top: The great fruit is not eaten. The noble man gains a carriage; the petty man strips his hut.)

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