Yì Fú 易祓 (lifedates not securely recorded; fl. 1184–c. 1240, Wikipedia and Hunan-local-history sources cite c. 1156–c. 1240), zì Yànzhāng 彥章, hào Shānzhāi 山齋, of Tánzhōu Níngxiāng 潭州寧鄉 (modern Níngxiāng county, Hunan). CBDB id 11407.
Zhuàngyuán 狀元 (first-place jìnshì) of Chúnxī 11 (1184), entering via the Imperial Academy upper-residence (Tàixué shàngshè) graduation rather than the standard jìnshì examination. Career under Níngzōng: Mìshūshěng (Imperial Library) posts, jīngyán 經筵 lecturer-in-attendance, Zhuózuò láng 著作郎 (Qìngyuán 6 / 1200, eighth month), Zhī Jiāngzhōu 知江州 (1200, ninth month). From Sīyè 司業 (Vice-Director of the Imperial Academy) leapt by patronage of Hán Tuòzhòu’s adherent Sū Shīdàn 蘇師旦 to Zuǒsī jiàn 左司諫 (Left Remonstrance Officer). After Sū Shīdàn’s fall and execution in 1207, Yì Fú was demoted and died in exile (per Zhōu Mì 周密’s Qídōng yěyǔ 齊東野語); the Yuè Léifā visitation poem of Jiāxī era (1237–1240) places him still alive then, “white-bearded, finely chewing plum-blossom while reading the Zǒng yì.”
Within the Kanripo corpus he is the author of KR1a0048 Zhōuyì zǒng yì 周易總義 (20 juan; composed across more than twenty years, completed by 1228). He also authored a now-lost Yì xué jǔyú 易學舉隅 (4 juan, chart-and-numerology supplement) and a Zhōulǐ zǒng yì 周禮總義 recovered by the Sìkù editors from Yǒnglè dàdiǎn citations.
The Hunan Yì-clan to which he belonged is documented in CBDB’s expansive note as a multi-generational examination-success lineage: ancestor Yì Xióng 易雄 of Tánzhōu Liúyáng (Jin-period official); descendants moved variously to Jízhōu Lúlíng, Yuánzhōu Yíchūn, Yúnzhōu Shànggāo, and Ráozhōu Ānrén. Yì Yīngyún 易應雲, Yì Fú’s relative, earned jǔrén in Jízhōu Lúlíng (1186) and jìnshì in Tánzhōu Níngxiāng (1187), suggesting close cross-prefectural lineage links.