しきがみ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しきがみ – see the following entry.

【式神】 [noun] A kind of familiar spirit, summoned-up in service as a servant to the will of a practitioner of the onmyōdō (陰陽道) religion, very much like a western familiar. Alternative spellings 識神, しきじん

(This term, しきがみ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)