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View research methods02Layered reading
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03Evaluating sources
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How is it dated?
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04Source catalogue
Public source catalogue
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Current context · 奇门遁甲
遁甲演義（四庫全書本）
A transcription labelled as the Siku edition of Dunjia Yanyi. Its abstract attributes the work to Cheng Daosheng of the Ming; volume one includes several methods and star-gate movement examples.
- Responsibility
- Attributed in the abstract to Cheng Daosheng of the Ming; Wikisource transcription
- Identifier / locator
- 卷一 · 時家奇門 / 八門九星逐時移宮訣
- Year and version
- Online transcription labelled Siku Quanshu edition; not collated against images
Reading and citation notes
- Locating the evidence
- See the abstract and volume one's origin, hourly-method, Yanbo Diaosou Rhapsody and hourly star-gate movement sections. The hourly method explicitly lists Yang 1 and Yin 9 placements.
- Scope and limitations
- The online transcription was consulted, without character-by-character collation against Siku images. Attribute origin narratives to the text and keep the abstract's compilation date separate from the work's composition.
Note reviewed
遁甲奇門符應經
The National Central Library record of Dunjia Qimen Fuying Jing identifies an old manuscript copy, three juan in two volumes, accession 06583.
- Responsibility
- Catalogue attribution: Yang Weide (Song), author; Wang Xun, preface
- Identifier / locator
- 06583 · 306.5 06583
- Holding institution
- National Central Library, Taipei
- Year and version
- Old manuscript copy; three juan, two thread-bound volumes; copy date not established
Related reading奇门遁甲
Reading and citation notes
- Locating the evidence
- Consult title, author attribution, preface contributor, edition, juan, quantity, accession, call number and holder. The call number is 306.5 06583.
- Scope and limitations
- The catalogue attributes authorship to Yang Weide of the Song and a preface to Wang Xun. Folio images were not examined; a date mentioned in a preface does not by itself date these physical volumes.
Note reviewed
奇門遁甲の基礎的研究
Ino Takeshi, Basic Study for One of Chinese Divination; Qi men dun jia, Kenkyū Ronshū 10 (2010), pp. 161–185; discusses rotating and flying boards and illustrates earth plates.
- Responsibility
- Ino, Takeshi
- Identifier / locator
- hdl:2115/44606 · 研究論集 10:161–185
- Holding institution
- Hokkaido University HUSCAP repository
- Year and version
- 2010 · 2010 journal article; full-text PDF supplied by the repository
Related reading奇门遁甲
Reading and citation notes
- Locating the evidence
- The repository supplies author, date and pagination. In INO.pdf, printed pp. 170–172 locate Jia correspondences, Yang 1, Yin 9 and palace directions; a metadata sheet precedes the article.
- Scope and limitations
- This review consulted the repository and extracted PDF text, without visual page verification. The study supports method comparison, not predictive efficacy or uniformity across all traditions.
Note reviewed
RIS export retains filtered results and verified bibliographic fields. Translators and holding institutions remain notes; manuscript dating is not a publication year. Unverified fields stay blank.
05Citation record
Elements of a citation record
When pages, editions or interpretations change, a clear record lets you and later readers retrace the same evidentiary path.
- 01Author or responsible institution
- 02Title and document type
- 03Edition, fascicle or collection number
- 04Stable URL and access date
- 05Page number for the cited passage
- 06Your inference separated from the source