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Omamori

Objects · Rituals · Traditions

A named shrine-issued personal amulet, usually a sewn packet, of Japanese household protection. Not an Ofuda, and not a generic charm under a shrine name.

Shinto

  • Omamori is historically related to Charm.

    Chamberlain’s Charms notes seat omamori as portable shrine amulets for personal protection — pouch-amulet speech, not a flat ofuda slip alone.

    from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Things Japanese · Basil Hall Chamberlain

    Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese (5th ed. 1905).