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陰陽道
おんみょうどうおんようどう
1. [n]
▶ Onmyōdō
▶ way of Yin and Yang
▶ occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1295380 忌み日【いみび】 1. unlucky day (according to astrology); (previously a) death anniversary; purification and fast day
  ⇐ see: 2567270 天一【てんいち】 1. Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky
  ⇐ see: 2561870 天一神【てんいちじん】 1. Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky
  ⇐ see: 2567120 方塞がり【かたふたがり】 1. unlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin)
  ⇐ see: 2567070 塞がり【ふさがり】 2. unlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin)
  ⇐ see: 2604070 土御門神道【つちみかどしんとう】 1. Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period)
  ⇐ see: 1445270 土【つち】 4. (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
  ⇐ see: 1243760 九星【きゅうせい】 1. nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope
  ⇐ see: 1656000 物忌み【ものいみ】 2. confinement to one's house on inauspicious days to avoid misfortune (Onmyōdō practice)
  ⇐ see: 2250150 三革【さんかく】 2. kakurei, kakuun and kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō)
  ⇐ see: 2777740 陰陽家【いんようか】 1. diviner (esp. of the Yin and Yang system); sorcerer; exorcist; medium
  ⇐ see: 1537910 厄年【やくどし】 1. unlucky year; critical year; year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky (orig. in Onmyōdō)
  ⇐ see: 2561790 八将神【はちしょうじん】 1. the eight gods who preside over the lucky/unlucky directions of the traditional calendar for each year (in Onmyōdō)



History:
3. A 2015-08-13 23:56:33  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2015-08-13 15:23:44 
  Diff:
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-<gloss>Onmōydō</gloss>
+<gloss>Onmyōdō</gloss>
1. A* 2015-08-13 05:19:06  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onmyōdō
  Diff:
@@ -15 +15 @@
-<gloss>Onmyoudou</gloss>
+<gloss>Onmōydō</gloss>

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