Tengu Kendo Armour

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kendoo　剣道 Kendo -　天狗 Tengu and The Way of the Sword

What is the connection between the sword and Daruma ?
During the Edo period, many "WAYS" were developed, based on the principles of Zen and practised by the samurai, and "The Way of the Warrior" (Bushido) was of course one of them. One aspect of Bushido is "The Way of the Sword" (Kendo) and the "Way of the Bow" (Kyuudo).
. katana　刀 the Japanese sword .
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剣道独稽古 - 山本晴幸
Kendo Hitori Keiko - Practising Kendo Fencing by yourself



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karasu to Tengu 烏と天狗 Crow and Tengu
『剣道独稽古』の最後は、烏と天狗による「手留」と「乱勝」の構えを示した絵図を紹介する。
Introducing two postures with a Tengu as partner.



まるで覆面レスラーのようであるが、足の爪だけは烏のようになっていて、地面を掴むように踏むのは武術の基本であり、奥義でもある。



剣の構えが実に古流らしくていい。肘の左右への張りも見事である。
- source : japanbujut.exblog.jp

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１．天狗に乗って鞍馬に剣道を習いに行く義経．
1.Yositsune riding on the Tengu to take his fencing lessons at Kurama Yama

２．タイボ（大鵬）：伝説上の鳥：日本の”大怪鳥”
2.Taibo : a fabulous bird : the Japanese "Roc"
source : db.nichibun.ac.jp/ja/d/GAI/info


. Kurama Tengu and Yoshitsune .


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Japanese Tengu Armour - yoroi 鎧 and kabuto　兜 with Tengu


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宮城県 Miyagi, 伊具郡 Igu district 丸森町 Marumori

Tengu no hijuｔstu 天狗の秘術 Secret Teachings of Tengu
Once upon a time
at the home of 佐藤松吉 Sato Matsukichi there lived a young warrior called 理八 Rihachi.
The family was very poor and Rihachi was sent to work for the rich family of 小田 Oda in 館矢間村 Tateyamamura. From there he could take part in the Kendo training of 高木与惣兵衛 Takagi Yosoemon at the local training hall.
After three years, when Rihachi was 20 years old, there was no other student who could beat him. Yet the teacher did not promote him. Finally Rihachi understood he was not yet ready, pulled himself together and started anew to practise alone at a wild place called 万騎の峰, which the locals called "Tengu no Miya" 天狗の宮 "Palace of the Tengu".
On the mountain path there were dangerous wolves on the road and beautiful ladies trying to distract him and even severed human heads were flying around - but despite all these terrible things, Rihachi was undisturbed and continued his practise.
Finally on the 107th night at midnight the Tenug showed up and took him to the 天狗の角力場 Training place of the Tengu, where he was shown how to fly in space.
Later Rihachi himself was venerated as a Tengu Son 天狗尊 Tengu in the village and he opened a training hall for martial arts.
He became very famous and won many official competitions and got the name Riken 飛剣 "flying sword".

- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -


. Tengu no Miya 天狗の宮 in Ehime, 伯方町 Hakata village .


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Tengu no Ken 天狗の剣 The Sword of the Tengu
幕末京都守護職始末
Fujimoto Hitomi　藤本ひとみ

会津の小天狗幕末を翔ける。父への反発、友への焦燥、ほのかな恋…青春の只中でもがきつつ剣に励む孝太郎。京都守護職を拝命した会津藩の先駆けとして、倒幕佐幕入り乱れる激動の京に身を投じるが!?書き下ろし長篇時代小説。


Tengutoo, Tengutō 天狗党の乱 Tenguto no ran, Tengutō Rebellion
Mito no ran 水戸幕末争乱 rebellion between May 1864 and January 1865
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Yatsugatake Akatengu Aotengu

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Yatsugatake - Akatengu Aotengu 八ヶ岳 - 赤天狗 - 青天狗
Red Tengu Peak and Green Tengu Peak

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The Yatsugatake Mountains (八ヶ岳連峰 Yatsugatake-renpō) "Mountain with eight peaks" are a volcanic mountain range on the border between Nagano Prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture .



The mountain range consists of two volcanic groups, Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group and Southern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group.
..... According to legend, Yatsugatake was once higher than Mount Fuji, but Konohanasakuya-hime, the goddess of Mount Fuji, tore it down out of jealousy, leaving the collection of peaks we have today.




Mount Tengu 天狗岳 Tengu-dake - Tengudake
is a 2,646m mountain on the border of Chino and Koumi of Nagano in Japan. This mountain is the highest mountains of Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group. Named for the mythical avian creatures of folklore, the Tengu.
This mountain has two major peaks, Mount Higashi Tengu (Eastern Tengu), and Mount Nishi Tengu (Western Tengu).
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The Tengudake peak in the East has a red rock site and is thus called
Aka-Tengu 赤天狗 Red Tengu.

The Tengudake peak in the West is covered with green haimatsu ハイマツ dwarf pine (Pinus pumila）and is thus called
Ao-Tengu 青天狗 Green Tengu .



At the bottom of Tengudake is a hot spring:
奥蓼科温泉郷渋の湯 Okutateshina - Shibunoyu, Shibu no Yu. This was one of the secret hot springs of warlord
Takeda Shingen 武田信玄.
- reference : toki.moo.jp/gaten 885

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- - - - - There are other Tengudake in Japan.

Ishizuchi Shinkō 石鎚山信仰 Shikoku Mount Ishizuchi
. Tengudake　天狗岳 Shikoku　 .
1,875 m - center of the Ishizuchisan Tengu cult



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. Tengudake 天狗岳 Mount Tengudake, Osaka (Nara)- 558 m .
also called -- 燈明ヶ岳 Tomyogadake, 犬鳴山 Inunakisan, 天狗魔王岳 Tengu Maodake


. Shirakami Sanchi 白神山地 Akita .
Tengu-dake　(985 m)


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Tengu tsume nails

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tengu no tsume 天狗の爪 tengutsume 天狗爪 nails of a Tengu



Various samples are exhibited in temples, shrines and museums.

天狗の爪 - essay by 野間達郎 Noma Tatsuro
The artifacts are same no ha 鮫の歯 teeth of a shark!


Tengu no tsumeishi, tsume-ishi 天狗の爪石
カルカロドン・メガロドン（サメ）の歯化石 fossil of a shark tooth
- reference source : kiseki-jp.com/japanese/museum-

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In the forest are sometimes nails of a Tengu on the ground, they say.
They are blue-black and rather large. They almost look like stone and the top part is bent, like the claws of a beast.
The local people go searching for them after a strong rainstorm. When put in water, the solution would cure high fever.

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During the times of Tokugawa Ieyasu there came a tengu to a temple, where a strong priest lived. He wanted to fight with him and if he won, would get the right arm of the priest. He won, but he did not cut the arm off, but only borrowed the "strength" of the arm.
After seven days, the Tengu came back and returned the "strength" of the arm. The priest was now strong as before.
To show his gratitude, the Tengu also gave him one of his nails.

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岐阜県 Gifu



三方崩山の天狗の爪跡 Sanbo Kuzureyama with scratches of Tengu nails
岐阜県大野郡白川村 - Gifu, Ono district, Shirakawa
- reference source : hidatakayama.ne.jp/yamagatari -

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石川県 Ishikawa

The Tengu lives in the local mountain and sometimes comes around to visit the villages.
Since the Tengu scratched the mountain ever so often, there are now no trees growing on it.

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京都府 Kyoto

Since about 1715, at the temple 丹州国分寺 Kokubunji in Tanshu (the Tango/Tanba region) they show a statue of Yakushi Nyorai 薬師如来 and also the nails of a Tengu.

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奈良県 Nara 奈良市 Nara town

Yagyū Shinkage-ryū 柳生新陰流 Yagyu school of swordsmanship


新陰流兵法目録事 Shinkageryu Heiho Mokuroku no Koto




At the shrine 天石立神社 Amanoiwatate Jinja, the famous samurai 柳生 石舟斎 宗厳　Yagyu "Sekishūsai" Munetoshi (1527 - 1606) practised martial arts. Night after night a Tengu was his partner. Once he thought he had cut the Tengu, but when he looked closer the next morning, there was only a huge rock with a cut.
This is the Ittoseki 一刀石.
Scratches of the Tengu's nails 天狗の爪痕 are still seen on the stone to our day -
if you look closely.




. The Yagyu clan and legends　柳生一族と伝説 .

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新潟県 Niigata 佐渡市 Sado town 小木町 Ogimachi

If people scrap some parts from Tengu nails and prepare a tea from it, they will be cured from a cold.

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徳島県 Tokushima

In 阿波国津田山 Tsudayama (Awa no Kuni) there was a strong thunderstorm and many strange things fell from heaven.
Among them was the nail of a Tengu, like the plectrum of a Shamisen, rather purple-black and like a stone.

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富山県 Toyama 東砺波郡 Higashitonami district 福野町 Fukunomachi

At 烏堂の宮 Karasudo ni Miya once they heard the voices of two people struggeling and shouting. Next morning they found nails with blood on them. These are the Nails of a Tengu.

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山形県 Yamagata 北村山郡 Kitamurayama district 大石田町 Oishida

At the temple 向川寺 Kosen-Ji there are some 手まり石 round stones which the Tengu used to play with - once upon a long time.
During daytime the Tengu kept in hiding, but at night they came out and abducted children. People who saw them lost their mind. Next morning they had some scratches of Tengu nails on their body.
Once during a festival a child was abducted and next morning they found scratches of Tengu nails on all over the stem of the Temple pine tree.



There is another story about the Tengu from Kosen-Ji.
One day the mud wall around the temple was broken down at some parts and the priest repaired it. Nest morning the wall was broken again, even if the night had been quiet and no thunderstorm occured.
On another day the paper doors, which had just been repaired, were torn again the next morning.
Eventually the priest understood: If he had talked bad about the Tengu in the neighbourhood, something would happen during the night. Since then, the priest stopped talking lightly of the Tengu and begun to venerate him.

天狗が登り降りしたという大杉には、天狗の爪跡がはっきりついていると伝えられている。また、向川寺に飾られている大きな石には、天狗が握った時についた指の跡がくっきりと残っている。今の時代には考えられない物語である。
向川寺から坂を登って10分位の所に天狗の相撲取り場が今でも残っている。本当に天狗なんて存在したのだろうか。

There is also a children's song about the Tengu
ナンマイダー　ナンマイダー
後ろを見れば　黒滝山
黒滝山は　向川寺
向川寺には　天狗がいる
前を見れば　最上川
最上川には　舟がある
上り下りの　舟がゆく
上り舟には　帆をあげて
下り舟には　米積んで
酒田の港へ　六十里
舟の舳先に　うぐいすが
一匹止まって　ホ　ホケキョウと鳴きました
天狗様くるから　ねろねろや
ねろねろや　ねろねろや

Koosenji 向川寺 Kosen-Ji　/ 黒滝山向川寺 Kurotakiyama Kosen-Ji
Kitamurayama District, Oishida, Yokoyama, 4375
- reference source : abc-yamagata.com/shinkansen/oishida -

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Iwakiri Okami Tengu

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Kabasan Iwakiri Ookami 加波山石切大神 Kabasan Iwakiri Okami
Iwakiri Okami, "Great Deity of Stone Cutting"
Iwakiri Daigongen 岩切大権現



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Mt. Enzan (燕山), left and Mt. Kaba (加波山), right. A view from Sakuragawa city.


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Mount Kaba (加波山 Kaba-san) is a [709 m (2,326 ft)] mountain located within the borders of Suigo-Tsukuba Quasi-National Park, Japan.
Mount Kaba is located in the southern part of Ibaraki Prefecture, bordering the cities of Sakuragawa and Ishioka, and north of Mount Tsukuba.
The mountain is granite. There are many stone quarries, in the center of the western part of Kabasan, Sakuragawa city (old town, 真壁町 Makabe). It is nationally known as a center of stone cutting.
At the summit of the mountain, there is the Haiden of Kaba Shrine; a Shinto shrine.
Makabe haiden (Satomiya) Shrine
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加波山神社 Kabasan Jinja



- - - - - Deities in residence
伊弉冊神（伊弉冉） Izanami no Mikoto
速玉男神 Hayatama O no Mikoto (God of War)
事解男神 Kotosakano O no Mikoto (born from the words Izanagi exchanged with Izanami in Yomi no kuni, the Nether World)
- also known as
泉津事解之男 / 豫母都事解之男命 Yomotsukoto Saka no O no Kami

The area was used by Shugendo priests in a mixture of Shinto and Buddhist lore, including the Tengu, which were very much alive on this mountain.
The locals are fond of their 岩切神 "Stone Cutting Deity".



The faces of these Tengu in the Shrine are square.
- reference source : zoeji.com/01meguri/01meguri-kanto -


Iwakiri Okami was the strongest among the Tengu living there. He could split a rocky mountain range with a stomp of his foot.
At Mount Tsubamedake (燕山 Enzan) there is a sanctuary in his honor - 天狗祠.
People often bring salt as an offering and hope to get healed from diseases if they pray here.


Amulet from the Shrine



stamp from the Shrine

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- Some photos from an extensive page about this mountain:

the red Tengu




三尊石 three Cut Stones




天狗七飛石 Tengu Jumping Stone





「加波根不動尊」- 寝不動 Kaba Nefudo - Fudo of Roots, Fudo lying down




- Look at more photos of the buildings and stones :
source : blog.goo.ne.jp/ruribo0209

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Iwakiri Okami Tengu 岩切大神天狗
He has wings and a long nose, but is in fact a 烏天狗 Karasu Tengu.
Sometimes he sits on a kitsune 狐 fox and is shown with flames in his back halo, almost like Fudo Myo-O.

Some legends say there lived 48 Tengu at Mount Kabasan. Their leaders were Iwakiri Okami Tengu and
天中坊天狗 / 天中坊 大天狗　Tenchu-Bo Dai-Tengu

- reference : toki.moo.jp/gaten/601-650/gate607

Tengu no Niwa 天狗の庭 Garden of Tengu / 岩切大権現 Iwakiri Daigongen
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加波山事件 "The Kabasan Incident"



An attempt to kill the governor of Tochigi, Mister Mishima.
In October 1884, intensifying Jiyu Minken Undo culminated in the Kabasan Incident (a failed terror attack attempt and subsequent harsh crackdown on activists of Jiyu Minken Undo in Ibaraki and Tochigi Prefectures), prompting Itagaki to dissolve the Liberal Party for the time being.
1884年（明治17年）9月に発生した栃木県令三島通庸等の暗殺未遂事件。
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The 加波山事件 "Kabasan Incident" of 1884 is related to the influence and spirit of this Tengu in the local thinking.


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Korinbo Fukuoka

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Koorinboo 宰府高垣高林坊 / 宰府高垣高森坊 Korin-Bo
Korinbo, Saifu Takagaki - Fukuoka

He is one of the
. 四十八天狗 48 Important Tengu of Japan .

He lived on Hoomanzan 竈門山（宝満山) Mount Homanzan, on the border between 筑紫野市 Chikushino
and 大宰府町 Dasaifu.



Mount Hōman
The mountain is about 830 m high.
It is an important site for Shugendo, and a famous place for rock climbing.
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杖道発祥の地　Mount Homanzan is the place where"the Way of the Stick" to defend oneself originated.

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Jōdō　杖道　Jodo literally means the way of the stick.
Shinto Muso Ryu (SMR) evolved in the castle town of Fukuoka, in the north west of the main southern island of Kyushu.
SMR is a 17th Century art that matches a practitioner equipped with a 4-shaku 2-sun 1-bu (128 cm) long stick against a swordsman. In its complete “old school” (koryu) form SMR comprises seven sets of jo kata, and several ancillary weapon sets including kenjutsu, walking stick (tanjo), sickle and chain (kasuirgama), war fan (tessen) and other arts besides.
It was founded by Musō Gonnosuke Katsuyoshi, a master swordsman of the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu who embarked on warriors quest (musa shugyo), travelling Japan, looking for opponents to duel.
SMR tradition relates that he met Miyamoto Musashi (possibly in Edo) suffering his only defeat to the two sword (Nito) technique. Following this he travelled seeking answers to the juji-dome block.
At Mount Homan in Kyushu,
above the castle town of Fukuoka he spent 37 days meditating and training – and received a revelation from the Tengu (long-nosed winged demons, famous as the source of several martial traditions) to take the round pole and place it on the water of the moon (Water Moon, or Suigetsu, is the Japanese word used in budo to indicate the solar plexus on the human body).
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Musō Gonnosuke Katsuyoshi 夢想權之助勝吉 Muso Gonnosuke
was a samurai of the early 17th century and the traditional founder of the Koryu school of jojutsu known as
Shintō Musō-ryū (神道夢想流 / 神道無想流) Shinto Muso-Ryu.

He is perhaps most famous for his duels with the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.
- His first duel with Miyamoto Musashi
- Seclusion, Jojutsu and the second duel
The outcome of the second duel, or even that a second duel occurred, is not conclusively known. The stick-fighting school he founded maintains that Gonnosuke, now armed with the jo, defeated Musashi through the use of the superior length of the jo to keep Musashi's swords out of range of Gonnosuke and thus hinder him from using the X-shaped technique effectively. Gonnosuke had Musashi at his mercy but let him live as a way of returning the favour granted in the first duel. ...
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宝満宮竈門神社 Homan-Gu Kamado Jinja
883 Uchiyama, Dazaifu, Fukuoka



- - - - - Deities in residence
Tamayori-hime, Emperor Ōjin, Empress Jingū

From the 中宮 Middle Shrine the 行者道 Shugendo Path begins.
About half way up there is the Tengudo 天狗道 Tengu Path, but this is now forbidden for hikers and tourists.

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. Miyamoto Musashi 宮本武蔵 (1584 - 1645) .
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source : collections.lacma.org

Miyamoto Musashi Slashing a Tengu
Alternate Title: 宮本無三四
by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892)

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And was the great Miyamoto Musashi not nicknamed "the little Tengu",
he who remained undefeated after more than sixty duels ?

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by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 185)

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Tengu Geijutson　天狗芸術論 The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts　
Discourse of the God Tengu on the Art of the Sword
Neko no myoojutsu 猫の妙術 Neko no Myojutsu
The Cat's Eerie Skill / The Cat's Uncanny Skill / The Mysterious Technique of the Cat
佚斎樗山 Issai Chozan (Chozanshi) (1659 - 1741)
Die wunderbare Kunst einer Katze
tr. Karlfried Graf Dürckheim (1896-1988)



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This collection of parables written by an eighteenth-century samurai is a classic of martial arts literature. The tales are concerned with themes such as perception of conflict, self-transformation, the cultivation of chi (life energy), and understanding yin and yang. Some of the parables seem light and fanciful, but they offer the reader valuable lessons on the fundamental principles of the martial arts; “The Mysterious Technique of the Cat” is iconic.
The “demon”
in the title story refers to the mythical tengu, who guard the secrets of swordsmanship. A swordsman travels to Mt. Kurama, famous for being inhabited by tengu, and in a series of conversations he learns about mushin (no-mind), strategy, the transformation of chi, and how the path of the sword leads to the understanding of life itself.
The author, Issai Chozanshi,
had a deep understanding of Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto, as well as insight into the central role of chi in the universe—points that are succinctly explained in William Scott Wilson’s fine introduction and extensive endnotes. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to truly understand the philosophical underpinnings of martial arts, and how these principles relate to our existence.
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A Graphic Approach to Musashi and Demons: Shambhala's “The Book of Five Rings”
and
“The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts”

..... The story revolves around a young would-be swordsman who ventures into the deep woods to seek the instruction of the tengu, the mythical bird-men of Japan who were said to have instructed the legendary hero Minamoto no Yoshitsune in the ways of warfare. Coming across a group of them holding a discussion in a tree, he settles in to eavesdrop and benefit from their wisdom. The title is somewhat of a misnomer-tengu aren’t demons in the Western sense of the word (that being malevolent beings or spirits from Hell) but more like ‘forest spirits’. Wilson here chooses to break “The Demon’s Sermon” into several parts and use it as a framework to structure the shorter stories. This allows the short stories to reinforce and expand upon the concepts brought up by the tengu, as well as letting the tengu introduce the concepts to be spotlighted in the short stories.
An interesting choice by Wilson, it helps to tie the work together as a unified whole rather than a series of stories. Many of the ideas are the same as those looked at by Musashi in “Five Rings”, again showing how Buddhist and Confucian ideals found their way into sword training. The tengu discuss the concept of no-mind or emptiness, using your chi (the energy that flows through everything) correctly, the importance of practice and discipline, and how adaptability and lack of attachment are vital.
Humorously, the tengu also find most martial arts schools to be lacking in their instruction with too great an emphasis on rigid technique.
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Tengudo Tengu-Do realm

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Tengudoo, tengudō 天狗道 Tengudo, the Realm of Tengu
Tengukai　天狗界　

A realm outside the six realms of existence:

. Rokudoo 六道 Rokudo, Six Realms of Existence .
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The World of Devas or Gods
The World of Asuras, Demigods, Titans, Fighting Demons
The World of Humans
The World of Animals
The World of Hungry Ghosts
The World of Hell

This word is now also used for many things,
including manga, restaurants, gourmet groups and martial arts fighting styles.



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Tengu have long been considered the main enemies of Buddhism in Japan.
Tengu are one kind of yokai which there is a direct path to becoming: a human that is so wicked, so evil, that they do not even deserve hell can become a tengu. They are reborn in Tengu-do, or the realm of tengu — a place outside of the wheel of reincarnation from which there is no escape.
Tengu never get a chance at becoming a Buddha or being reborn in a better world.
They are stuck there forever, as a yokai, forever apart from happiness and barred from enlightenment.
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During the times of retired emperor Go-Shirakawa 後白河天皇 （1127 - 1192, tengu were seen as
tenma 天魔 heavenly evil spirits

. Tenma - Maten 摩天 .
- a deity who is tempting and disturbing human beings.

天主大魔王: Sixth Heavenly Pillar Deity.
Number six in the Buddhist realm of lust, greed and desire (yokuai, yokkai 欲界 .. kāma-dhātu. Kamadhatu), the highest realm.
People who are reborn in this heaven tend to take the pleasures of others for themselves and enjoy in the happiness of others.

Since a Tenma Tengu comes from a path of Buddhism, he can not enter one of the six realms of existence.
They live in a sphere outside Buddhism, free of any restraints, pursuing their own lust and desire without fear of punishment.


. Myooe Shoonin 明恵上人 Saint Myoe (1173 - 1232) .

A friend of priest Myoe named Gedatsu once had visitors from the Tengudo realm at his humble abode, who told him about the dangers of leaving the Buddhist path and venturing into dangerous terrain outside it.
Myoe used to tell his disciples to study the right path of Buddhism diligently and never think of leaving it.


. Daisoojoo 笠置山大僧正 - Tengu Daisojo, Kasagizan .
and Gedatsu Shoonin, Shōnin 解脱上人 Saint Gedatsu Shonin
Gedatsu shōnin Jookei, Jōkei 貞慶 Jokei (1155 - 1212)



Jokei belonged to the 法相宗 Hosso sect of Buddhism.
He was also called 解脱房 Gedatsu Bo and 笠置寺上人 Kasagidera Shonin, the Saint from Temple Kasagidera.
He believed in Shaka Nyorai, Miroku Bosatsu, Kannon Bosatsu and 春日明神 Kasuga Myojin.
In 1205, he founded 海住山寺 Kaijusen-Ji and spread the belief in Kannon Bosatsu.
He tried to use the power of the Imperial Court to suppress the activities of 法然 Saint Honen.

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テング【超級】攻略と適正キャラまとめ
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Tenma DaiTengu 天魔大天狗


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Tengu-do is a fictional fighting style created by Team Ninja, though when broken down it appears...
Tengu-do. Japanese restaurant offering natural blowfish...
Tengudo - Kibidango ...
Established in 1800, Ohishi-Tengudo Corporation is an old hand at the production of karuta...
TENGU-DO Fishing Sticker. ...
What Can't a Tengo do ? ...


- Not to mix with Tengudoo 天狗堂 Tengu-Do Hall
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