陰陽道おんみょうどう

noun

Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements

A traditional Japanese esoteric cosmology and divination system derived from Chinese Yin-Yang and Five Elements philosophy. Often associated with onmyōji (陰陽師) practitioners in the Heian period.

• 陰陽道おんみょうどうは平へい安あん時じ代だいに貴き族ぞくの間あいだで広ひろく信しんじられていた。

  Onmyōdō was widely believed among the nobility during the Heian period.

• 陰陽おんみょう道どうの考かんがえ方かたは、方ほう角がくや暦こよみの吉きっ凶きょうを占うらなうのに使つかわれた。

  The ideas of Onmyōdō were used to divine the fortune of directions and calendars.