Japanese

Abe no Seimei and his shikigami, (bottom right,) whom with which they all say grace before an assembly of God-like demon spirits

Alternative forms

• 識神

Noun

式神 ‎(hiragana しきがみ, romaji shikigami, alternative reading しきじん, romaji shikijin)

1. 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.

See also

• 犬神 (いぬがみ) ‎(inugami): a (guardian/familiar) dog spirit; a kind of shikigami
• 陰陽道 (おんみょうどう) ‎(onmyōdō): the onmyōdō religion, "The Way of Yin and Yang"
• 陰陽師 (おんみょうじ) ‎(onmyōji): an onmyōdō master or teacher
• 使 (つか)い魔 (ま) ‎(tsukaima): a familiar, a familiar spirit
• Shikigami on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 式神 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja