陰陽師

English translation: Yin-yang master

15:48 Aug 2, 2007
Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - History / spiritual(?)
Japanese term or phrase: 陰陽師
占術や呪術の達人
seika
United States
Local time: 10:16
English translation:Yin-yang master
Explanation:
If this is a person then I think this is accurate. It's also the title of a film: (onmyouji in japan)
http://uk.geocities.com/rainforestwind/ito4.htm

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Steven Smith
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:16
Grading comment
Thank you so much!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5Yin-yang master
Steven Smith
5yin yang fortune-teller
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
2sorcerer
V N Ganesh


  

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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Yin-yang master


Explanation:
If this is a person then I think this is accurate. It's also the title of a film: (onmyouji in japan)
http://uk.geocities.com/rainforestwind/ito4.htm



Steven Smith
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you so much!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Narcis Lozano Drago
4 mins
  -> Thanks

agree  V N Ganesh
9 mins
  -> Thanks

agree  Nobuo Kameyama: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onmyodo
2 hrs
  -> Thanks. Interesting link!

agree  _forumuser_: Yes. Note that some scholarly texts give 'diviner'.
6 hrs
  -> Master is good but that's diviner!

agree  Yo Mizuno
15 hrs
  -> Thanks
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
sorcerer


Explanation:
sorcerer/exorcist/ghost buster

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Note added at 26 mins (2007-08-02 16:15:16 GMT)
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yin yang master

ommyôji 陰陽師: Sometimes translated as "astrologers", "Feng Shui master", "Yin Yang master", or "onmyou mystics" and sometimes written as onmyoshi or transliterated as onmyouji. The ommyôji were practitioners of the techniques of ...
www.koyagi.com/ACPages/aco.html - 38k -

V N Ganesh
Local time: 19:46
Native speaker of: English
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1 day 9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
yin yang fortune-teller


Explanation:
For a specific movie, it is known as yin yang master. But ti can be yin yang fortune-teller, master of yin yang, feng shui master, onmyouji, astrologer etc. in general terms: for more information.
There is another name in another movie: yin yang fortune-teller as well.

Example sentence(s):
  • This movie is Collaboration of a 'Let's go! ONMYOUJI( Yin Yang fortune-teller )' and a dancing clown. I...
  • Succeeding the will of the deceased Yin-Yang fortune-teller; Seimei Abe of the Heian era, your past to the present will be told first, then all of your future.

    Reference: http://dabble.com/node/407093
    Reference: http://www.geidai.ac.jp/staff/fm060e.html
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
Thailand
Local time: 21:16
Native speaker of: Thai
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