Pān Shìzǎo 潘士藻 (1537–1600), zì Qùhuá 去華, hào Xuěsōng 雪松, was a late-Míng Yìjīng scholar and official from Wùyuán 婺源 (Huīzhōu 徽州, modern Jiāngxī 江西). He passed the jìnshì examination in Wànlì guǐwèi 萬曆癸未 = 1583 and rose to Vice-Director of the Ceremonial Court (Shàngbǎo sī shǎo qīng 尚寳司少卿).
According to Jiāo Hóng’s 焦竑 preface (Jiāo was a younger contemporary and friend), Pān had set his heart on Confucian and Mencian learning early; in his late years he turned exclusively to the Yì. The Dú yì shù 讀易述 (KR1a0103) was composed in his late years, with Pān refusing to release it during his lifetime; he died of illness with the work still in his hands. His son Pān Shīlǔ 潘師魯 and others printed it posthumously.
The work is a seventeen-juàn collected commentary that brings out Pān’s own readings first and then attaches material from earlier commentators — principally Fáng Shěnquán’s 房審權 Zhōuyì yìhǎi 周易義海 and Lǐ Dǐngzuò’s 李鼎祚 Zhōuyì jíjiě 周易集解 (KR1a0009) — with the Yìhǎi material weighted more heavily because of Pān’s general orientation toward yìlǐ. The Sìkù editors note Jiāo Hóng’s preface claim that Pān used the original 100-juàn Yìhǎi (long lost by the late Míng — Pān could in fact only have used Lǐ Héng’s 李衡 fifteen-juàn condensation Yìhǎi cuō yào 義海撮要) is “probably an exaggeration” by Jiāo.