14. A lucky and an unlucky aspect of a house.

 As for the shape of a house, you had better build it on the basis of a regular rectangle. A building of this type has any possibility of enlarging. A regular square form and an irregular form, that is, any other form than regular rectangle form will bring misfortune to you. In building your house, you had better build a house each side of which faces towards the due north, the due south, the due east, and the due west as far as the circumstances permit. It is very difficult for the residents in a big city to get houses in accord with this principle. However, you have to know that it is divine intention to impose a bitter trial on you as an atonement for your sins and to call on you for grave reflection that gods let you get an unluckily shaped house. You have no choice but to escape from the disaster for a time with the Kuyoh-Hoh for the protection against the disaster from the unlucky aspect of the house after you apologize to gods for your faults and beg them their forgiveness. It is better, if possible, for you to have those houses rebuilt.
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  In case of enlarging and building an addition to a main house like the first fig., you should have both corners on the north side. It is desirable to extend a building in alphabetical direction, then you can get a well lighted house. It is well to bear in mind that you should get the part of the south-west so as not to project from a straight line AD and a straight line CD. It is proper to extend like the second fig. In this case, you should extend in order of the number of (1), (2), (3), (4), and (5). You should give attention to the parts of straight line AB and straight line BC. In building an addition of (5) to a main house, its part must not be projected outside the straight line AD and CD. Like the third fig., if you have an extention built to the north side of the main house, you can not save money, and your family will be liable to be laid up one after the other. If you have an extention built in the direction showed in the fourth fig., the female there will be strong minded, and gradually will become sickly or will die young. If you have an extention built in the direction showed in the fifth fig., the males there will be strong minded, and gradually will become sickly or will die young. If you have an extention built in the direction showed in the fifth fig., the males there will be strong minded, but gradually will lose their fortune, and will be sickly or die young. I have once said to some persons who lived in the houses like the fourth and the fifth fig., "How long have you lived here?", and the answers were, as expected, that the wives there died young or were widows in each generation. You will also get into debt in the cases of the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth fig. To correct the aspects of these houses, you should produce four straight lines along the four sides of the house and examine if you can get each intersecting point becoming an apex of a rectangle, and you have only to build a rectangle cottage with an apex in common with that apex in the open space.However, even if that is impossible, you have a chance of escaping from the disaster for a time by using the Kuyoh-Hoh for protection against disasters from the unlucky aspects of a house. Even if you are now seriously ill, or in an ill-fated situation from these kinds of disasters, you will improve remarkably by using the Kuyoh-Hoh for protection against these disasters. When you face a disaster because of an unlucky aspect of a house, you are placed in such a position that all your children, even if you have many children, will be all useless, and you will be taken in, or always misjudged, so that your business and plans will not turn out as you wish, and what is worse, you will get seriously ill periodically. However, the same shall not apply to those who have left the house. It is better for those who live in such houses to escape as soon as possible from the disasters from the unlucky aspects of a house by chanting our Kyohtens and using our Kuyoh-Hohs.
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