Lunar mansion
Jī
Winnowing Basket
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In the classical sources
箕居其旁則取豹為虎之類以配之
箕 lies alongside, and so it takes the leopard, a kind of tiger, as its match.
協紀辨方書 卷一
About this entry
箕, the Winnowing Basket, takes the leopard as a relative of the tiger next door in the 寅 palace, as 協紀辨方書 卷一 reports. It also opens the seventh and last 元: when 甲子 falls on 箕, the 420-day round is about to run its final sixty days.
With 壁, 參 and 軫 it makes the water group in 星厯考原 卷五, which modern practice links to Wednesday. 尾 is the mansion before it, 斗 the one after. Its name is a household tool, and no text we hold explains what that might imply for a day.
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