fuhi

Updated: January 6, 2026

Subsequently this device was abandoned in favour of the Chinese method, heating a tortoise-shell; and ultimately the latter, in turn, gave way to the Eight Trigrams of Fuhi. The use of auguries seems to have come at a later date.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era