天てん文もん密みっ奏そう

noun

confidential report to the ruler on astronomical events and their astrological interpretation

Archaic term from pre-modern Japan, referring to a secret report submitted to the emperor or shogun about celestial phenomena and their divined meanings.

• 天てん文もん密みっ奏そうは、陰陽寮おんみょうりょうから朝ちょう廷ていに上あげられた極ごく秘ひの報ほう告こく書しょだった。

  The tenmon missō was a top-secret report submitted to the imperial court by the Bureau of Yin-Yang.