Bazhai Mingjing 八宅明鏡 falsely ascribed — Yang attribution unverified
Bright Mirror of the Eight Mansions: the most reprinted of the Eight Mansions manuals — and a standing demonstration that a famous name on the cover is a marketing fact, not a bibliographic one.
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Identity card
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | 八宅明鏡 Bazhai Mingjing ("Bright Mirror of the Eight Mansions") |
attributed_author | Commercial editions print "(Tang) Yang Yunsong" (唐)楊筠松著 on the title page; the actual compiler recorded in library catalogues is the Qing writer Ruoguan Daoren 箬冠道人 (e.g. the Capital Library record) |
attribution_status | falsely ascribed 托名 — the Yang Yunsong attribution is unverified 楊筠松題署未證實; the register's finding is a mis-attribution on the common editions |
| School | Eight Mansions 八宅 |
| Full text | None linked. Our register verified no open full-text repository for this title (the Wikisource page for it returns 404); rather than link an unverified mirror, we link nothing. |
What it contains
Per the collation register:
- The East-four and West-four dwellings 東西四宅.
- The great year cycle 大遊年.
- The nine stars: Shengqi 生氣, Tianyi 天醫, Yannian 延年, Fuwei 伏位, Jueming 絕命, Wugui 五鬼, Liusha 六煞, Huohai 禍害.
- Matching the life trigram 命卦 to the dwelling 命卦配宅.
The attribution problem
This is the register's clearest case of vendor attribution: a Qing manual stamped with a Tang master's name for the used-book market. The distinction matters procedurally. We do not write "Yang Yunsong's Bazhai Mingjing", because the collation found the attribution unverified and the compiler otherwise named. Equally, we do not hide the mis-attribution behind a bare "author unknown" — the interesting fact is precisely that the wrong name circulates.
Our register records no Siku verdict for this title, so none is claimed.
Where it sits in the tradition
Matrix row: Eight Mansions 八宅 main body ◎, Form 形巒 partial ○. With the 陽宅三要 it anchors the Eight Mansions line. The nine-star allocation it transmits is implemented in our engine — and the two classical derivations of that allocation disagree, which we document rather than paper over: see dispute entry D-04 in the School Dispute Register.
Related
陽宅三要 · 宅經 · 青囊奧語 (the "Yang Yunsong" attribution problem, again) · full register · School Dispute Register (D-04 八宅)