Japanese Feng Shui???

[Neil Hawkins]

In light of the recent facinating posts by John, a question came to my mind. A friend and I were recently discussing the various merits of Feng Shui as his house was in the process of being set upon by his girlfriend and her Feng Shui friend :rolleyes:. Now I have to admit that I know very little about this but it seems to me that a lot of it has been played upon us unsuspecting westerners, certain aspects I can understand, but some of it is over the top in my opinion.

I know that Japan had its own version of Feng Shui and from what little I have read it seems to be much more pragmatic than the Chinese version. Does anyone know of any good online sources on this subject?

Perhaps there's someone out there that can better explain it to me. Maybe we can discuss the differences between Chinese and Japanese Feng Shui and what relevence it has in our society.

Regards

Neil

[jtweymo]

The Japanese call Feng Shui by the term <b>Fusui</b>, I've never heard of any websites on the topic but would be interested if you locate one.

[Joseph Svinth]

For fusui, see http://www.oita-pjc.ac.jp/~hara/practice.htm , which describes the practice for the siting of tombs on Okinawa. Also, this fellow's academic papers should keep you busy for days: http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/asia-nl/members/m0082.html After that, you have to read Japanese. Sorry.

Feng shui, however, has various sites at college geography departments. See, for example, http://www.pitt.edu/~ceci/fengshui.html and http://www.utoledo.edu/www/_CAMPUS-INFO/COLLEGES/ARTS-AND-SCIENCES/geography-and-planning/fengshui.html

For popular interpretations with recommendations for further reading, see, for example, http://www.wolfenet.com/~jeremiah/fengshui.html . Japanese martial aspects are mentioned in the latter article: "Feng shui was used as a weapon during Japan's occupation of Korea. In order to ensure that the occupation would be successful, Japanese geomancers dug deep shafts into the earth, inserted, then buried upright, long iron poles to act as collectors and re distributors of the land's qi. This was intended as a sort of destructive geomantic acupuncture. To this day, Koreans are trying to find and remove these poles, in order to restore their country's original qi flow."

[Edited by Joseph Svinth on 11-19-2000 at 12:38 AM]