🪄SON OF A FOX🦊
Abe-no-Seimei (安倍晴明 921-1005) is often thought of as the 'Merlin of Japan'.
Celebrated as perhaps the most successful onmyōji (陰陽師 'yin-and-yang master'), Seimei served 6 emperors. Thanks to a prominent career and long (sickness free) life he came to be viewed as a magical figure.
🪄SON OF A FOX🦊
Abe-no-Seimei (安倍晴明 921-1005) is often thought of as the 'Merlin of Japan'.
Celebrated as perhaps the most successful onmyōji (陰陽師 'yin-and-yang master'), Seimei served 6 emperors. Thanks to a prominent career and long (sickness free) life he came to be viewed as a magical figure.
Amongst his many tasks was onmyō (Yin-Yang divination), tenmon (天文-astronomy), koyomi (暦-calendar making), and rōkoku (漏刻-time keeping).
Seimei was charged with protecting the court by predicting future events, something he became so adept at that he was in constant demand.
It is unclear who Seimei's parents were.
While it was rumored his mother was a shapeshifting fox-woman from the Shinoda woods (guardian of the Shinoda Shrine), in reality she was probably a member of the Kamo family (加茂社家).
The Kamo at this time dominated the onmyō-ryō.
