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Doku-jin Saimon as Local Professional Knowledge

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Layer 1: Doku-jin Saimon as Local Professional Knowledge

Section titled “Layer 1: Doku-jin Saimon as Local Professional Knowledge”

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The Yoshikawa study emphasizes that the family collected diverse liturgical formulae used in their ritual work.

An early-modern local onmyōji’s toolkit was a portable documentary archive: calendar knowledge + saimon + deity lore + local clientele + ritual procedure.

This deserves comparison with:

  • Daoist priestly manuals;
  • Shingon ritual notebooks;
  • Shugendō handbooks.