Twelve palaces

Palace of countenance 相貌宮

Where it is

Not one spot. It is the five peaks and the three sections looked at together.

This place is not one spot but the whole face read together, so nothing is marked on the drawing.

What the books said

얼굴 각 부위를 명궁(命宮)·재백(財帛)·형제·전택(田宅)·남녀·노복·처첩·질액(疾厄)·천이(遷移)·관록·복덕(福德)·상모(相貌)로 나누어 관상하는 것이 십이궁이다.

Our rendering: The twelve palaces are twelve names given to parts of a face.

Source: Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, entry 'Gwansang' (written by Cho Heung-yun, 1995, last revised 7 February 2023). https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0004873 (Checked on 2026-09-05)
相貌者,先觀五岳,次辨三停。

Our rendering: The palace of countenance is not one spot. It is the five peaks and the three sections looked at together.

Source: Shenxiang Quanbian, digital text at the Chinese Text Project (ctext.org). https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&chapter=905153 (Checked on 2026-09-05)

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