Where does “陰陽寮” come from?

陰陽寮 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 陰陽, from Middle Chinese 陰陽, from Old Chinese 陰陽.

陰陽寮 (Japanese): a 律令 department under the 中務省, responsible for astronomical, timekeeping and divination affairs

Definitions

  1. a 律令 department under the 中務省, responsible for astronomical, timekeeping and divination affairs

Ancestry of “陰陽寮”, step by step

陰陽寮 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 陰陽

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese陰陽yin-yang
2Middle Chinese陰陽—
3Old Chinese陰陽—

via Japanese 占

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese占fortune-telling

via Japanese つかさ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseつかさa small hill, a mound
Every word from Old Chinese 陰陽 →Every word from Middle Chinese 陰陽 →Every word from Japanese 陰陽 →