著者

朱 捷

出版者

京都

雑誌

総合文化研究所紀要 (ISSN:09100105)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.33, pp.63-81, 2016

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Some pairs of the hexagrams in the I Ching (Book of Changes) may be viewed as having the structure of palindromes, and the elements that make them up may be viewed as palindromes as well. The hexagram 師, (shi, Leading), for example, is the reverse of the hexagram 比 (bi, Grouping), and each of that hexagramʼs six yao 爻 (the whole or broken lines that make up the hexagram) is the reverse of the corresponding yao. The first yao of the hexagram 比, for example, is the sixth yao of the hexagram 師, while the sixth yao of the hexagram 比 is the first yao of the hexagram 師. Whether it can be ascertained if there is in fact a reversible, palindrome-like relationship between these pairs of yao and their commentaries, and whether each of these paired yao shows a correspondence with and reversal of its counterpartʼs meaning is the question this paper takes as its subject. This essay looks at seven pairs of hexagrams in which each yao is the mirror image of that of its corresponding hexagram, and, on the basis of the commentaries on each of the forty-two yao, for a total of eighty-four, determines that almost all of the pairs show this palindromic conversion of meaning.論文