Hexagram 43: Guài (Breakthrough) · Takashima Ekidan
泽天夬 · 第 43 卦 · 中文版
Lake over Heaven, Breakthrough: Raised in the royal court; a sincere proclamatio...
Recorded Cases (6)
- Someone from the Toyoshima family came and said: “I have recently been planning something. Please di (Nine in the first place: Strong in the forward toes; going forth without prevailing brings blame.)
- A man named Kangen from the household of a certain wealthy merchant came and said: “I am traveling f (Nine in the Second: A warning cry; at night there are arms, but do not worry.)
- In a certain month of Meiji 22, a divination was performed about excavating Inbanuma (Nine in the Third: Strength in the cheekbone. There is danger. The noble person is decisively decisive; going alone encounters rain and seems soaked, with resentment, but no blame.)
- Two men, Senate official Nishimura Teiyō and former governor of Kanagawa Prefecture Isseki Moritaka, (Nine in the Fourth: The buttocks have no skin; one’s progress is halting. Leading a sheep, regret disappears; hearing these words, one does not believe them.)
- A servant from a noble household came to ask for a divination concerning his aged master’s fortune. (Nine in the fifth place: Amaranth, decisively and repeatedly cut away; following the middle path, there is no blame.)
- One day, Foreign Ministry secretary Kitazawa Masanobu came to visit and said: (Six at the top: No proclamation; in the end there is danger.)
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