Tengenjutsu (fortune telling)

Summary

Tengenjutsu (Japanese: 天源術) is a Japanese fortune telling method. It is based on yin and yang and the five elements, and uses a person's birth date in the sexagenary cycle and physical appearance to predict one's fate. Tengenjutsu originated in various Chinese practices, but was first systemized by the early Edo period monk Tenkai. It is also the origin of Tōkyūjutsu.[1][2][3]

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  1. ^ "天源術". Digital Daijisen (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
  2. ^ "てんげんじゅつ 【天源術】". Daijirin (in Japanese) (2 ed.). Sanseido. Retrieved 2009-12-28. Alt. link.
  3. ^ Sawada, Janine Anderson Tasca (2004). Practical pursuits: religion, politics, and personal cultivation in nineteenth-century Japan. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 30. ISBN 0-8248-2752-X. Retrieved 2009-12-20.