Hexagram 9: Xiǎo Chù (Small Taming) · Takashima Ekidan

风天小畜 · 第 9 卦 · 中文版

09 Wind over Heaven, Xiao Chu The character 'Xu' is composed of 'Xuan' and 'Tian...

Recorded Cases (7)

A county school-affairs director often discussed national affairs and spoke with impassioned resolve (Initial nine: Return by the Way. What blame could there be? Auspicious.)
I had a merchant acquaintance who received an order from a certain bureau to purchase old silk gauze (Nine in the second place: Drawn back, auspicious.)
In the twenty-fourth year of the Meiji era, the steamship Tokyo Maru No. 9 of the Mail Steamship Com (Nine in the second place: Drawn back, auspicious.)
In the sixth year of the Meiji era, Senior Minister Iwakura, together with Kido, Okubo, Ito, Yamaguc (Nine in the third place: The carriage loses its wheel spokes; husband and wife glare at each other.)
In the fifth year of the Meiji era, a divination was performed concerning the fortune of a certain e (Six in the fourth place: There is trust. Harm departs and apprehension goes out; no blame.)
In the third month of the fourth year of the Meiji era, my friend Mr. Okada Heizo came and said, “I (Nine in the fifth place: There is trust, binding together; wealth shared with one’s neighbors.)
In a certain month of the twenty-second year of the Meiji era, an eminent person came to discuss cur (Top Nine: The rain has come, and he rests; the virtue is fully laden. For the woman, constancy is dangerous; the moon is nearly full. For the exemplary person, setting out is inauspicious.)

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