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 The lines of these three principles are described by the Japanese in this way:

For convenience we will always call these three parts Heaven, Man, and Earth. Every school applies different names to these principles, but to vary them here would only cause confusion, and whatever each school may call them, they all place them in the same position in grouping and give them the same relative heights.

Before commencing the arrangement bear in mind these important rules: [55]