しきがみ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しきがみ – see the following entry.
式神
[noun] A kind of familiar spirit, summoned-up in service as a servant to the will of a practitioner of the onmyōdō (陰陽道) religion, very much like a western familiar.
Alternative spellings
識神, しきじん
(This term, しきがみ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.