Subject
Abe no Seimei 安倍晴明
The most famous diviner of the Heian court, active around the turn of the eleventh century, and the figure around whom the largest body of onmyōdō legend gathered — a fox-born boy in the later tellings, a court astrologer in the records.
Notes
- What the Onmyōji Actually Did They kept the calendar, watched the sky, and told emperors which days and which directions were safe.
- Seimei and Dōman: The Making of a Rival Abe no Seimei's great rival, Ashiya Dōman, is barely a name in the early story collections. How storytellers, a woodblock life and the stage built him a career.
- She Was Named for Her Own Poem Abe no Seimei's fox mother left a poem on a paper door. The kudzu leaf in its last line was in the poem long before it was her name.
Volumes
Mystics of Old Japan
SEIMEI VOL.01
Tales of a Diviner's Beginnings
Nine tales of the young Abe no Seimei — the fox-born boy who became the most famous diviner of the Heian court.
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Mystics of Old Japan
SEIMEI VOL.02
Tales of a Diviner at Court and Beyond
Seventeen tales of Abe no Seimei at the height of his power — the great diviner of the Heian court, the rival who would not yield, and the legends that continued after his death.
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