おんみょうどう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of おんみょうどう – see the following entry.

【陰陽道】 [noun] a traditional body of Japanese esoteric cosmology; a mixture of natural sciences and occultism, based on the Chinese philosophies of Wu Xing and Yin and Yang. Alternative spellings おんにょうどう, おんようどう, いんようどう

(This term, おんみょうどう (onmyōdō), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)