List of Illustrations

 

Figure 2.1 Detail from Zhu Da’s Fish and Rocks (Chinese, 1624–1705)

Figure 2.2 Five Agents Sequences

Figure 3.1 Correlations among the Trigrams, Hexagrams, and Twenty-Four Segments of the Solar Year (attributed to Jing Fang)

Figure 3.2 Trigram and Five Agents Correlations

Figure 3.3 The Luo River Writing and the Yellow River Chart

Figure 3.4 The Later Heaven and Former Heaven Sequence

Figure 3.5 The Luo River Writing and the Former Heaven Sequence

Figure 3.6 Triangular Diagram of Yellow River Chart Correlations

Figure 3.7 Production of the Eight Trigrams from the Supreme Ultimate

Figure 3.8 Illustrations of a Divination Table and the Process of Milfoil Separation

Figure 4.1 An Yijing-Inspired Japanese Painting: Uragami Gyokudo’s (1745–1820) Reading the Changes Sitting by a Mountain Waterfall

Figure 4.2 The Generative Power of the Supreme Ultimate

Figure 4.3 Vietnamese Yijing Manuscript in Classical Chinese and Nom Characters

Figure 4.4 Trigrams on a Tibetan Ritual Horn

Figure 5.1 One Version of Bouvet’s Chart of Heavenly Superiority and Earthly Subordination

Figure 5.2 Shao Yong’s Former Heaven Chart

Figure 6.1 The Supreme Ultimate Symbol

Figure 6.2 Trigrams on a Ritual Bell in the Shanghai City God Temple

Figure 6.3 Detail of a Qing Dynasty Fengshui Compass

Figure 6.4 Qing Dynasty Map of the Fixed Positions of Heaven and Earth