おんようどう

Japanese

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【陰陽道おんみょうどう】 [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, いんようどう

(This term, おんようどう (on'yōdō), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)