Onmyoji

myth:onmyoji

Japan's onmyoji were masters of the Way of Yin and Yang: the Heian court's diviners, astrologers, calendar-makers, and exorcists, and above them all the legendary Abe no Seimei, who read the stars, turned aside curses, and commanded shikigami — spirit-servants folded from paper — to do his will. The magician as a servant of the state and a reader of the cosmos. — Japanese history