Konjin
An itinerant kami of directions, both feared and worshipped.
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Konjin is a wandering kami from Onmyōdō, a Japanese system of divination rooted in Chinese Yin-yang and Five Elements philosophy. This deity shifts location based on the year, month, and season, and its current position is considered dangerously unlucky. Konjin is believed to be violent and to inflict curses, making its direction one to avoid.
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- Associated cosmology
- Onmyōdō
- Associated directions
- Compass directions, demon's gates (northeast and southwest)
- Unlucky direction
- Konjin's momentary location
- Practice to avoid
- Katatagae (changing directions)
- Period of influence
- Heian period
- Demon's gate names
- Omote-kimon (northeast) and ura kimon (southwest)
- Alternate names for gates
- Ushitora and Hitsujisaru
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- Wikipedia: Konjin (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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