is one of the texts written by the legendary
Abe no Seimei
was an ''onmyōji'', a leading specialist of ''Onmyōdō'' during the middle of the Heian period in Japan.Miller, Laura. "Extreme Makeover for a Heian-era Wizard". ''Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Pres ...
during the
Heian Period
The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means "peace" in Japanese. ...
in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. It is attributed to Seimei since it contains a chapter that clearly bears his name.
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Inoue Nobutaka, (Japanese 井上 順 孝 Nobutaka Inoue) (born 1948), is a Japanese scholar of religious studies, who specializes in modern Shinto studies. He is a Professor Emeritius at Kokugakuin University.
Education
Nobutaka attended the Unive ...
, website=Encyclopedia of Shinto , accessdate=2022-04-27
Contents
The text contains six thousand forecast and thirty-six fortune-telling techniques based on divination through use of
shikigami. Many of these divinations relate to normal daily lives such as determining the gender of an unborn child, finding lost or missing objects, and advice on how to lead one's personal life.
Popular culture
In the manga ''
Shaman King
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei. It follows the adventures of Yoh Asakura as he attempts to hone his shaman skills to become the Shaman King by winning the Shaman Fight. Takei chose shamanism as the ma ...
'', this book seems to be the inspiration that led to the creation of the mystical book called Chō-Senjiryakketsu containing the thoughts and secrets of
Hao Asakura.
References
External links
占事略決Online text
Onmyōdō
10th-century Japanese books
Occult books
Japanese books
Heian-period books