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*''Japanese'': 陰陽寮 ''(onmyou ryou)''
The Onmyô-ryô, or [[Yin-Yang]] Bureau, was an organ of the ''[[ritsuryo|ritsuyô]]'' state which oversaw matters of spiritual and geomantic significance, including divinations and calendrics.
Many of the officials of the Onmyô-ryô were ritual specialists from the Korean peninsula.<ref name=rawski117>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 117.</ref> Those particularly expert in divination, geomancy, and other yin-yang related "magical" fields were known as ''onmyôji''; [[Abe no Seimei]] (d. [[1005]]) was the most famous of these, but members of the [[Nakatomi clan]] also held significant positions in the Onmyô-ryô, coming to dominate the office for a time.
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==References==
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[[Category:Nara Period]]
[[Category:Heian Period]]
[[Category:Political Institutions]]