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9/08/2016

men mask with Tengu

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Many temples have Tengu masks and many festivals use them.

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Menkake Gyoretsu - Japanese Mask Festival in Kamakura

On September 18th in Kamakura at the little Goryo Shrine a small but unique festival is held where the participants wear masks which are over 200 years old. The festival is known as Menkake Gyoretsu or Masked Procession. The festival is of uncertain origins but what is certain is that the shrine itself goes back to the late 11th Century. The enshrined kami is that of a famous warrior of the early samurai era - Kamakura Kagemasa popularly known as Gongoro. In fact the locals usually refer to Goryo Shrine as Gongoro Shrine. ...
- source : therovingroninreport.blogspot

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. Kashoozan no tengu men 迦葉山の天狗面 Tengu mask from mount Kashozan . - Gunma
Priest Tenson Keijun 天巽慶順 and his Tengu disciple (Nakamine) Chuuhoo Sonja 中峰尊者 Chuho Sonja Sonja.
Mirokuji 迦葉山弥勒寺 Temple Miroku-Ji

This mask of a Tengu at Kashozan is maybe the largest, 5.5 m long and a nose of 2.7 meters.

There is another huge one at the temple 興国寺 Kokoku-Ji
Wakayama, Hidaka District, Yura, Monzen 801 / 日高郡由良町門前801

Tengu mask in the 天狗堂 Tengu Hall.

This mask is 2.4 m long and 2.7 m wide.
On January there is a special Tengu Festival in its honor.

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天狗の面 - Tsuchiya Takao 土屋隆夫 (1917 - 2011)
Novel about 天狗堂のおりん Tengudo no O-Rin

信州・牛伏村にある天狗伝説。信仰を集めたのは、天狗堂のおりん。天狗講の集まりの日、太鼓の音と呪文の声、天狗の面に囲まれて、男が殺された。そして連続する殺人事件。平和な村を乱すのは、お天狗様の崇りなのか。―駐在所の土田巡査は見えない真相に苦悩する。一種の催眠状態に陥った人間と、宗教と政治の黒い関係を描き出す、著者初の長編推理小説。
source : amazon.co.jp

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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

...................................................................................... Chiba 千葉県

. Chiba and its Tengu legends 千葉県と天狗伝説　 .
嶺岡浅間の天狗面 Mineoka Asama Tengu Masks
高宕山源頼朝と天狗面 Takagoyama and the Tengu Mask of Minamoto to Yoritomo ... and more

...................................................................................... Gifu 岐阜県
養老郡 Yoro district

At the mountain village 瀬村 Semura there is a festival where the local people make a large mask of a Tengu and send it off to the next village in the deep mountains with music of drums and bells. The Tengu is seen as a protector of the humans and their animals. This custom lasted until the early Meiji period.

...................................................................................... Gunma 群馬県
下仁田 Shimonita

. Tengu mask from 妙義山 Myogisan .
Tengu Myoogizan Nikkooboo 妙義山日光坊 Nikko-Bo, Nikkobo, Myogisan
長清法印天狗 Nagakiyo Hoin Tengu
His mask is called 魔除妙義山中之岳大天狗　Mayoke Myogi Nakanotake Dai Tengu

...................................................................................... Ishikawa 石川県
金沢市 Kanazawa

At the meat shop 天狗中田本店 Tengu Nakada Honten 　
a Tengu is the protector deity of the shop.

Tengu was a "friend" of the founder on his visits to the local Izakaya bar and also familiar to the shop founder from Kurama in Kyoto. The founder 中田岩次 Nakada Iwatsugi carved a mask, put on some flashing robes and rode through the town on a horse to draw attention to his shop. At that time, eating meat was not yet very popular in Japan.
The shop was first named 天狗乃肉 Tengu no Niku, The Meat of Tengu.

On the 3rd of Nbvember, the founding day of the shop, the mask of Tengu is venerated. During the New Year celebrations, a scroll of Tengu is hung up.

- Homepage of the store
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...................................................................................... Niigata 新潟県
村上市 Murakami

At the annual festival, children are choosen to be the アマメハギ Amamehagi. They wear masks of a Tengu or for a 獅子頭 lion dance and walk around the village from home to home, where they receive sweets.
At night they have to stay awake in the local shrine.

Amamehagi あまめはぎ
is a little male Yokai monster. He has mushrooms on his head which he uses to attack things.

(He is related to the Namahage from Ishikawa prefecture. Mizuki Shigeru has written about this Yokai.)

. Namahage なまはげ - Introduction .

...................................................................................... Okayama 岡山県

. Tengu misaki 天狗ミサキ .
天狗 Tengu and Yatei ヤテイ
guhin sama グヒン様 Guhin Tengu

...................................................................................... Shiga 滋賀県

. Taroobooguu 太郎坊宮 Shrine for the Tengu Tarobo .
The Tengu 太郎坊 Taro-Bo venerated here is a symbol of victory.
Tengu masks 天狗面 and bells 天狗鈴 are great amulets.

...................................................................................... Tochigi 栃木県

During the Shrine Festival, a man clad in a Tengu mask is lead by a man with a mask of the God Sarutahiko 猿田彦. The onlookers must take care not to look down on the two of them.

- 猿田彦の面 mask of Sarutahiko

. Komine Jinja 古峯ヶ原古峯神社 (Furumine Jinja). .
Tengu no yado 天狗の宿 "The Inn of the Tengu"

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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -
天狗面 and 天狗の面

. men, omote 天狗面 Tengu masks　- many more photos .

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里神楽てらてら赤き天狗面
sato kagura teratera akaki tengumen

village Kagura -
the mask of a Tengu
shines ever so red

大橋敦子 Ohashi Atsuko

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. Kagura Dance　神楽 .

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祭の月夜子の手に青い天狗の面
栗林一石路

天狗面懸かる飲み屋の泥鰌鍋
上野林泉

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. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .

. - yookai, yōkai 妖怪 Yokai monsters - .

. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

. Mingei 民芸　Regional Folk　Art from Japan .

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9/02/2016

Hakusanbo

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Taichoo, Taichō 泰澄上人　Saint Taicho Shonin
Taicho-Daishi 泰澄大師 Taicho Daishi (682 ?683 - 767)
Etsu no Daitoku 越の大徳 - Great Man of Virtue from Etsu
Unpen Shoonin 雲遍上人 Saint Unpen Shonin
Shiramine Daisoojo 天狗白峰大僧正 Tengu Shiramine Daisojo

He was a teacher of Buddhism and later became a Tengu at Mount Hakusan.
He was the second son of the samurai family of Mikami no Yasuzumi 三神安角（みかみのやすずみ）and became a monk at age 14.

He practised austerities at 愛宕山 Mount Atago together with En no Gyoja 役小角 En no Ozunu, where they met three Tengu and got special teachings and training.
While they were at the mountain, a strong rain hindered their meditation and they prayed for help.
Suddenly three Great Tengu 大天狗 appeared, Nichiryo from India 天竺（インド）の日良, Zegai from China 唐の善界 and Tarobo from Japan 日本の太郎坊.
"We have protected the Buddhist Law for more than 2000 years and helped the people who lived there."
Then they disappeared.
Taicho declared the huge sugi cedar tree 杉 where this happened「清滝四所明神」Kiyotaki Shisho Myojin and on orders from the Court built a mausoleum for the emperor where the Deity 愛宕大権現 Atago Gongen was venerated, now 白雲寺 Hakuun-Ji（愛宕神社 Atago Jinja).
(This legend became popular in the Edo period.
And thus 愛宕山太郎坊 Tarobo from Mount Atago became the Boss of all Japanese Tengu.)

. Atago Jinja 愛宕神社　The Atago shrines of Japan .
Mount Atago　愛宕山, Kameoka, Kyoto.

Priest Taicho kept on travelling. In 117年 he climbed mount Hakusan in Echizen province and enshrined a "super Bosatsu" :
Myoori Daibosatsu 妙理大菩薩 The Godess Myori Daibosatsu.

In 717, the great Buddhist monk and teacher, Taicho Daishi, guided by a woodcutter Gongoro Sasakiri, climbed high up Mount Hakusan, an isolated sacred mountain, in order to meditate.
One night,
while Taicho was sleeping after beginning his rigorous regime of spiritual exercises, the guardian deity of Mount Hakusan appeared to him in a dream and said:
‘Lying about twenty-three kilometers from the foot of the mountain is a village called Awazu. There you will find an underground spring of hot water with wondrous, curative powers, which have been bestowed upon it by Yakushi Nyorai, the Divine Healer. However, the villagers are unaware of this blessing. Go down from the mountain and go to Awazu. With the people of the village, unearth the hot spring and it will serve them forever.’”

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Hooshi Ryookan 法師旅館　Ryokan Hotel Hoshi
石川県小松市粟津温泉 Ishikawa, Komatsu, Awazu Onsen
The roots of (Hooshi) Hoshi, the most ancient inn all over the world are truly divine. According to legend in 717 a noted monk Taicho hiked high up Mt Hakusan, a saint and isolated mountain. While Taicho was asleep one night after starting his rigid training exercises, the God of Hakusan turned up while sleeping.

He ordered him to go to a village known as Awazu as there was an underground hot spring with wondrous powers. The people of the village did not know of the good fortune. After dreaming Taicho made his way down to the village and uncovered the gem laying underneath the earth’s surface. Afterwards the priest requested his disciple to build and operate a spa at the site.

Generation after generation, Hoshi proprietors got the name 善吾楼　Zengoro Hoshi. The first Zengoro guided Taicho Daishi to the top of Mt. Hakusan. Quite a few people undergoing illnesses visited the spa built. People started making donations. He then used the money to expand the services he offered.
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Kippoji Temple 吉峰寺　
It is believed that this temple was established by Taicho Daishi (the great teacher). Dogen Zenji stayed at this Dojo (Buddhist's training school) from the start of his days in the Echizen province. ...
... there is also 'Kaizan Zazen Ishi' which is a rock where it is said that Dogen sat in Zen meditation. Next to it is a spring flowing from Mt. Hakusan.

Yoshinogatake - Zaosan
This mountain is one of top 5 mountains in Echizen. Many holy and miraculous spots are found there, such as 'Zao Gongendo' that Taicho Daishi is said to have enshrined. Ruins of an accommodation for the people who were training on the mountain during the Heian period can be found here, along with the holy spring called 'Akamizu', which mountain ascetics in training offered to the gods and Buddha.
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Power of Water: Mt. Haku
Height: 2702.14m
Location: Gifu, Fukui and Ishikawa prefectures
Mt. Haku was first scaled in 717 by Shintoist Taicho, and has since then attracted many worshippers.
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北陸白山御前峰の天狗 - 白峰大僧正
The Tengu Shiramine Daisoojo 白峰大僧正 Shiramine Daisojo

- source : Toyota Toki とよた時 / 画房【とよだ時】 Toyoda Toki

The "White Mountain" has three important peaks
Gozenpō 御前峰 Gozenpo (2,702 meters), Ōnanjimine 大汝峰 Onanjimine (2,684 meters) and 剣ヶ峰 Kengamine (2,677 meters). A bit further away is 別山 Mount Bessan.
Taicho climbed the moutani with a disciple and eventually became
白峰大僧正という天狗 the Great Tengu Priest of Shiramine.

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白山坊（はくさんぼう）とは白い狐の妖怪で、
Hakusanbo is a white fox Yokai !
妖怪キツネ白山坊　Yokai Kitsune Hakusanbo
by Mizuki Shigeru

An old white fox of more than 100 years, appears in the movie ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 Gegege no Kitaro
The origin dates back to the Edo period collection of Yokai
絵本百物語 Ehon Hyaku Monogatari.

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妖狐・白山坊の花嫁
白山坊ビバ! お化け屋敷

布をまとった狐の顔をした妖怪。
強い妖力を持ち、無生物を操ったり、無生物に化けたり出来る。また、術をかけることで人間に幸運を授ける、人の心を操る、普通の狐に言葉を話せるようにするなどの行為が可能。
基本的には、危機的状態にある人間に対し「命を助けてやる、ただし娘が16歳になったら嫁にもらう」という契約を持ちかけ、その後もらった娘を、嫁と称して食べようとする。
江戸時代の奇談集『絵本百物語』
にある狐の妖怪・白蔵主をモチーフにしたものとの説がある。
- reference source : wikipedia -

source : Stan on facebook

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火蛾とんで泰澄行列始まれり
higa tonde Taichoo gyooretsu hajimareki

a fire moth flies along -
the procession of Taicho
is now beginning
Tr. Gabi Greve

田上さき子 Tagami Sakiko

. hi ga　火蛾 "fire moth" .
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白峰のかんこ踊り Kanko Odori

During the Hakusan Matsuri festival in July:
The procession is in memory of Taicho coming down from the mountain. Taicho is represented by a man age 36, the same as Taicho at that time.
There are yamabushi 山伏 mountain priests blowing the horagai ほら貝 conch and young boys holding torches.
When the procession reaches the center of the village,
they stop and perform the kanko odori かんこ踊り Kanko dance.

kanko odori かんこ踊 Kanko dance, in honor of Taicho coming down from the mountain.
Once upon a time
a man saw smoke coming from the side of the mountain. When he went there, he found a priest and two companions. The priest said his name was Taicho and asked the man to lead him to the village.
The villagers thought the deity of Mount Hakusan had come down from the mountain and performed a welcoming dance for the group.
kanko 神迎（かんこ）踊 means "welcoming the deity".

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泰澄の開きたる湯に年忘れ
Taichoo no hirakitaru yu ni toshi wasure

to the hot spring
opened by Taicho -
end of the year

新田祐久 Nitta Sukehisa

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. sennin　仙人と伝説 Legends about Immortals and Hermits .

. 日本の仙人37人 - The 37 Immortals of Japan .
Taicho is number 07 泰澄大徳　Taicho Daitoku (682 - 767)

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大野市 Ono city 五箇村 Goka mura

daija 大蛇 huge serpent
Taicho had thrust his sword into a rock by the pond to bind and confine the serpents that had caused evil in the villages at the foot of the mountain.

The rock is called Kengaiwa 剣ヶ岩 "Rock of the sword".

The pond is called Senjagaike 千蛇ヶ池 "Pond of 1000 serpents".
Women are not allowed in the pond, they will die if they try to.

................................................................................. Gifu 岐阜県　

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上保村 Kamiho

tsue 杖 walking staff of a priest
At the temple 専龍寺 Senryu-Ji in Kamiho village there is a cherry tree which grew out of the walking staff of Saint Taicho.
It is now called 泰澄桜 Taicho Sakura.

................................................................................. Ishikawa 石川県　

kongoo tsue 金剛杖 sacred walking staff of a priest
Near the village 尾添 Ozo, there is kongoozue hinoki 金剛杖桧 a cypress tree that has grown out of the walking staff from Taicho.

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Ishikawa, 輪島市 Wajima

kani 蟹 crab and daija 大蛇 huge serpent
During a drought, a farmer said he would give his daughter in return for someone who would put water into his rice fields. Out of nowhere there came a young man who did it in just one night. He was the huge serpent from the river pool at 輪島川 Wajimagawa and now tried to get his bride. He wound himself around the house seven times and then get into the entrance, but inside was a large crab which managed to cut the serpent into nine parts. Where its bones fell down there are now nine ponds. The place where the head fell down is called
Oyaike 親池 "Main Parent Pond".
Near that pond a family named 笠原 Kasahara came to live as an incarnation of the vengeful spirit of the snake.
When Taisho heard of the story, he came down and used his spiritual power to break the curse of the family.

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柏崎市 Kashiwasaki

hachi 鉢 begging bowl of a priest
As a monk, Taicho practised 飛鉢法 the art of a flying begging bowl.
He sent the bowl to 神戸清定 Kobe Kiyosada and took away his 年貢米 annual tax rice.

................................................................................. Shiga 滋賀県　

Temple 鶏足寺 Temple Keisoku-Ji "Temple dedicated to the legs of a chicken"
そこでまずは、その名前の由来から。もともとの寺のおこりは、奈良時代、
あの東大寺の建立にも功績のあった行基（ぎょうき　６６８?７４９年）と、泰澄（たいちょう　６８２?７６７年）というお坊さんが、
近江の国の鬼門にあたる己高山（こだかみやま）に十一面観音をまつり、常楽寺というお寺を草建したのが始まりとか。
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東砺波郡 Higashi-Tonami district 城端町 Johana

amagoi 雨乞い rain rituals
The pond 縄が池 Nawagaike is used for rain rituals.
Once upon a time Taicho had bound and confined a serpent which had harmed the villagers.
The serpent turned into this pone.

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .

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. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .

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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

. Mingei 民芸　Regional Folk　Art from Japan .

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Karasutengu Karasu Tengu

Karasu Tengu from 鞍馬山 Mount Kuramayama

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In Japanese mythology, the Karasu tengu, or minor tengu,
is a supernatural being with the head and wings of a black crow. They serve Daitengu, which are fallen yamabushi (monks), tall men with big noses and red faces who can create tornadoes using fans of bird feathers they carry in their sandals.
Karasu Tengu (“Crow” Tengu) 烏天狗
The ancient form of the Tengu was the “karasu” or “crow” Tengu. Portrayed as an evil crow-like creature with the body of a man, it was capable of kidnapping adults and children, starting fires, and ripping apart those who willfully damaged the forest, for the Tengu live in trees.
Sometimes, too, the Tengu would abduct human beings, only to release them later, but the “lucky” survivor would return home in a state of dementia (called “Tengu Kakushi, meaning “hidden by a Tengu”).
A Karasu Tengu is rather small, with the head and wings of a black crow. Some say that Tengu don't want human society to become stable and powerful, so they intervene to provoke war and civil disorder.
- source : Mark Schumacher

source : ja.wikipedia
秋葉山 Akibayama, Akiba Yama
河鍋暁斎画 Kawanabe Kyōsai 東海道名所之内
Depicting the 木の葉天狗 Konoha Tengu living in a tree,
expressing 人畜無害, men and animals are harmless

. Akibagongen 秋葉権現 Akiba Gongen - priest Kanekuni .

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Kotengu may conversely be depicted as more bird-like. They are sometimes called Karasu-Tengu (烏天狗, crow tengu), or koppa- or konoha-tengu (木葉天狗, 木の葉天狗 foliage tengu).
Inoue Enryō described two kinds of tengu in his Tenguron: the great daitengu, and the small, bird-like konoha-tengu who live in Cryptomeria trees. The konoha-tengu are noted in a book from 1746 called the Shokoku Rijin Dan (諸国里人談), as bird-like creatures with wings two meters across which were seen catching fish in the Ōi River, but this name rarely appears in literature otherwise.
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. Karura, Garura (Garuda) 迦楼羅 "Bird Man".

An Indian Deity, which also eats dragons and takes away misfortune from the humans.
Often depicted with a hichiriki 篳篥 flute. One foot is moving to show the beat of his music.
He is one of the Hachi Bushū (Hachibushu, Hachibushuu) 八部衆
Eight Legions, Eight Deva Guardians of Buddhism

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. hariko men 張子面 papermachee mask .

source : folkcraft.samurai47.com
Miharu Hariko, Fukushima 三春張り子【福島】

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Tengu mask amulet from
. Isono Jinja 伊曽乃神社 - Ehime .

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. tsuchi ningyoo 土人形 tsuchiningyo clay dolls .

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. dorei どれい / 土鈴 clay bells .

Tengu on boar 猪に乗った天狗

和漢名筆金玉画府＜１７７１年＞に木版印刷された古閑による絵から
Fig. 19. From a drawing by Kokan,
engraved in the Wa-Kan mei-hitsu kingioku ga-fu (1771).)
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Crow Tengu Riding Boar (Karasu Tengu 烏天狗騎猪)
Late Edo Period Painting by Kaihō Yūtoku, Sairin-ji Temple 西林寺, Kyoto.

In paintings and woodblock prints, the boar often appears as the steed of the tengu or of their king, Sōjōbō 僧正坊. Sōjōbō is closely linked to famed warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune 源義経 (1159-1189), one of Japan's most revered samurai. In a well-known legend, Yoshitsune lived among the tengu in his youth and received training in the arts of war from Sōjōbō himself.
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The Buddhist martial deity Marishiten is also often shown riding atop a boar.

Another possible interpretation of the above image relates to the following Zen story:

“One day a hunter was in the mountains when he happened to see a snake killing a bird. Suddenly a boar appeared and began to devour the snake. The hunter thought he should kill the boar, but changed his mind because he did not want to be a link in such a chain, and cause his own death by the next predator to come along. On his way home he heard a voice call to him from the top of a tree. It was the voice of a tengu. It told him how lucky he was, for had he killed the boar, the tengu would have killed him.
The man subsequently moved into a cave and never killed another animal.”
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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

At the time of Tokugawa Ieyasu
there lived a strong priest in a temple. Once there came a Karasu Tengu to him and asked for his help in a fight with his worst enemy. He wanted to use the right arm of the priest, but he could not possibly cut it off . . . So the priest agreed to borrow just the "strenght of his arm". After seven days, the Tengu gave the power back to his arm.
As a sign of his gratitude, he left his nails with the priest 天狗の爪.

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............................................................................ Aichi 愛知県
北設楽郡 Kita-Shitara district 東栄町 Toei

reiyaku 霊薬 a wonder-drug, miraculous medicine
About 30 years ago, 為義 Tameyoshi made a living as a hunter. Once he had a dream.
He had been asked to catch a kitsutsuki 啄木鳥 woodpecker to use for making a medicine, but during the hunt was attacked by taka 大鷹 a huge hawk. The hawk had all white feathers and on each one there was 黄金の鈴 a golden bell. It turned out to be a Karasu Tengu who taught him about three herbs to burn for a medicine. One of them was hebi ichigo 蛇苺 "snake strawberry", Duchesnea chrysantha, but the other two he could not remember when he woke up.

............................................................................ Ehime 愛媛県
周桑郡小松町 - Ishizuchiyama

村の者が男の子を連れて石槌山に登ったが子供の姿が消えた。家に帰ると子供は先に帰っていた。山頂で小便をしていると真っ黒い顔の大男が送ってやると声をかけ、目をつぶると家の裏庭に1人で立っていたという。烏天狗の仕業とされる。

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Mount Ishizuchiyama is called Tengu no su 天狗の巣 "Nest of the Tengu".
In the back yard of the village at the foot of the mountain there is a great matsu 松 pine tree, where the Karasu Tengu comes resting in the evening.
The Tengu also comes to rest at at a large muku no ki ムクの木 Aphananthe oriental elm. When the Tengu is there, flickering like flames can be seen in the branches.

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. 蒲生家 The Kamo clan of Matsuyama .

............................................................................ Fukui 福井県
三方郡 Mikata

The お使い messenger of 三方石観音 Mikata Ishi Kannon / 三方石観世音 Mikata Ishi Kanzeon is Karasu Tengu.

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One night sometime in the Enryaku Period (about 1,200 years ago) the priest Kobo Daishi had secluded himself in this mountain area and was carving a stone (ishi) statue of the Kannon (Goddess of Mercy). However he was forced to abandon his effort upon hearing a rooster crow to announce the daybreak. He left the mountain and the statue's right hand remained unfinished.
This site is now designated as a special holy site along the Hokuriku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage and, on account of the statue's missing limb, is said to have healing powers for limb disabilities. The path to the mountainside away from the Main Hall leads to a spring called 'Kannon Reisui' and, in March 2006, the spring's water 'Fukui no Oishii Mizu' (Fukui's Delicious Water) was recognised as among the very best from Fukui.
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............................................................................ Fukushima 福島県
いわき市 Iwaki 川中子 Kawanakago

At the 川中子の愛宕神社 Atago Shrine of Kawanakago there is a 小絵馬 votive tablet of Karasu Tengu. It has 神通力 great spiritual power and grants the wishes of people.

- Karasu Tengu from the Atago Jinja shrine in Kyoto

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. Kotengu and woodcutter .
Mashita district 益田郡萩原町 Hagiwara

............................................................................ Iwate 岩手県
平泉町 Hiraizumi

. 中尊寺薬師堂 Yakushido Hall at Chuzon-Ji .
... there is the skull of a Karasu Tengu.

Another 鳥天狗の頭蓋骨 Karasu Tengu skull at Wakayama, Jikoenpuku-In 　第22番清涼山・慈光圓福院

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karasu tengu no miira 烏天狗のミイラ mummy of a Karasu Tengu

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In the home of a Yamabushi priest, there are said to be six seated mummies. Two with their arms above the head, like doing a water ablution.
Two with their hands before the breast, facing downward to purify the earth.
Two with their hands on the knees, meditating.

............................................................................ Nagano 長野県
飯田市 Iida

山伏の天狗信仰が民衆の間に入り、その恐ろしい形相などから妖魔・悪疫を退治する力があると信じられている。

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. Kite 凧 tako and Tengu blowing wind .

............................................................................ Shizuoka 静岡県
周智郡春野町 Harunocho

岩岳山 Mount Iwatake has been opened by Aotengu 青天狗 Ao-Tengu（烏天狗 Karasu Tengu).

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Saishooin 景勝院 Saisho-In
景勝院の住職が碁を打ちに夜外出すると、寺で火事が起きた。駆けつけた住職が念珠をもんで叫ぶと屋根の上に四つの烏天狗が現れた。寺は焼け落ちたが大半のものは助かったという。

............................................................................ Toyama 富山県

カラス天狗とは屋敷神の名前である。ハラの神、ハッチョウの神、ゴンゲンサマとも呼ばれている。
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渡辺の子孫は布谷に住み、家を継続してきた。道路を造ったり村の開発を進めてきた。落人の一例ではあるが、現在でもその屋敷神が残っている。

............................................................................ Yamagata 山形県

. Tengu from Shōnai 庄内　- 伝説 Shonai Yamagata Legends .
永泉寺

............................................................................ Yamanashi 山梨県
道志村 Doshi

Kanchiki yokai, カンチキ monster like a Kappa 河童
This is a monster that lives in the deep ravine.
It has a tortoise shield on its back like a Kappa and his hair is long like that of a Karasu Tengu.

It grabs the intestines through the anus and eats them and caused water accidents in children.

kanchiki 獰悪な獣型河童 from Yamanashi
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. Kappa densetsu　河童伝説 Kappa Legends .

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9/01/2016

Tengu Manga

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Manga and Tengu 漫画 /マンガと天狗

. Manga Nippon Mukashibanashi まんが日本昔ばなし Tengu .
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. Kako Satoshi 加古里子 .
Daruma-chan and Tengu-chan だるまちゃんとてんぐちゃん

. Mizuki Shigeru　水木茂　- Tengu .

. Toyota Toki とよた時 Toyoda Toki - 山里漫画家 Tengu Manga .
with historical background / in Japanese

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..... The earliest tengu were pictured with beaks, but this feature has often been humanized as an unnaturally long nose, which today is widely considered the tengu's defining characteristic in the popular imagination.

Buddhism long held that the tengu were disruptive demons and harbingers of war. Their image gradually softened, however, into one of protective, if still dangerous, spirits of the mountains and forests.

and Tengloom - Nekurama Tengu

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8/30/2016

Tengu Folktales

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Kobu-tori Jiisan 瘤取り爺さん The Old Man's Lump Removed
An old man has a lump or tumor on his face. In the mountains he encounters a band of tengu making merry and joins their dancing. He pleases them so much that they take the lump off his face, thinking that he will want it back and join them the next night. An unpleasant neighbor, who also has a lump, hears of the old man's good fortune and attempts to repeat it. The tengu, however, simply give him the first lump in addition to his own, either to keep their bargain, or because they are disgusted by his bad dancing. (This story is also often told with oni, a sort of ogre, instead of tengu.

. Amulets and Tales from Shiga prefecture .

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Takara no geta 宝の下駄 Precious Geta
Once upon a time, a mother and son who were very poor lived at a certain place. Once the mother was sick and had fallen asleep. They didn't have money to buy medicine so the son was going to borrow money from an uncle. The uncle's name was Gonzo and he was a very greedy and mean person. He told his poor nephew, "I don't have any money for you or your mother." So the boy couldn't borrow money from his uncle.

The boy was very sad and on his way home he met a Tengu, which is a long-nosed goblin, with a very white beard. The Tengu has supernatural powers and can fly freely high up in the sky. He lives high in mountain caves. The Tengu asked the boy, "What's wrong with you? Why do you look so serious?" The boy explained his worries to him. The Tengu laughed loudly, "Ha, ha, ha!" and then gave his Ipponba-geta, or one tooth geta, to the boy. He told the boy, "These geta are precious geta. If you wear these and fall down, a koban (an ancient Japanese oval gold coin) will appear. But too much falling down will make you become short. So, don't fall down unless you really need money." After the Tengu told the boy about this, he laughed loudly again, "Ha, ha, ha!" He then made a strong gale of wind with a feather fan in his hand, and in no time at all he flew up and over the mountain.

The boy was amazed and dumbstruck for a short while. Gradually he came to himself and put on the geta and promptly tried falling down. Fall - plump! A koban appeared as the Tengu said it would. He fell down two times and two koban appeared. The boy was very excited and happy but he remembered what the Tengu had warned him of and he didn't fall down any more. He took his geta and gold coins home carefully.

As soon as his Uncle Gonzo heard about the boy's good luck and his Tengu geta he asked the boy, " You have koban that came from precious geta, haven't you? Let me use them."

The boy started to give his uncle the warning, "Uncle, there is a special way how to use these geta."

"Shut up." said the uncle, "I know how to use them, just fall down." The uncle wouldn't listen to him and took the geta from him by force and went home. After the uncle got home, he closed all the doors and windows then he lay a large cloth wrapper on the floor to catch the coins. He put on the geta and began falling down, fall - plump. Then as he watched, koban appeared very noisily.

After a while the boy went to see how his uncle Gonzo was doing. As soon as he opened the door, koban coins were overflowing everywhere but he couldn't see his uncle. "Uncle, where are you?" he called. Looking for his geta, he pushed the mountain of koban coins that had come from the geta. "Here they are!" he yelled. As he looked at the geta he could see a little bug stuck to them. The boy grabbed the bug and threw it away.

The truth is that the bug was his uncle. He had wanted too many koban coins and had fallen down so much that he became smaller and smaller and finally looked like a little bug. The boy took home the mountain of koban coins and his geta and lived happily with his mother. Today in Japan we have a bug called "Gonzo-mushi" which means "Gonzo-bug". This name comes from this greedy uncle from this story.
source : karankoron.com/geta_tengu

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. Tengu no ha-uchiwa 天狗の羽団扇 feather fan of a Tengu .

Kintaro Tengu No Hane Uchiwa / Manga Nippon Mukashibanashi

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Tengu no hiaburi, hi-aburi 天狗の火あぶり Tengu in fire

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Tengu no Hyōtan 天狗の瓢箪 The Tengu's Gourd
A gambler meets a tengu, who asks him what he is most frightened of. The gambler lies, claiming that he is terrified of gold or mochi. The tengu answers truthfully that he is frightened of a kind of plant or some other mundane item. The tengu, thinking he is playing a cruel trick, then causes money or rice cakes to rain down on the gambler. The gambler is of course delighted and proceeds to scare the tengu away with the thing he fears most. The gambler then obtains the tengu's magic gourd (or another treasured item) that was left behind.

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Tengu no Kakuremino 天狗の隠れみの / 天狗の隠れ蓑 The Tengu's Magic Cloak
This cloak makes its wearer invisible !

てんぐのかくれみの

A boy looks through an ordinary piece of bamboo and pretends he can see distant places. A Tengu, overwhelmed by curiosity, offers to trade it for a magic straw cloak that renders the wearer invisible. Having duped the Tengu, the boy continues his mischief while wearing the cloak.

. Tengosama, Tengu sama テンゴサマ / Tengohan, Tengo han (san) テンゴハン .
from Toyama. He uses a kakuremino.

. tobi shinchiko 飛びシンチコ the "Flying Shinchiko" penis .
- Kakure-mino Legend from Akita

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新潟県 Niigata 南蒲原郡 Minami-Kanbara district

Once a drunkard met a Tengu on the road and exchanged his 柿の種 persimmon seeds atainst a Kakuremino and kakuregasa 隠れ笠 umbrella to make him invisible. Burning the items, even the ashes made him invisible. So he sneaked into a Sake maker's 酒蔵 store house and enjoyed drinking. But when he had to go out at night for a pee, he was suddenly visible and all were quite astonished.
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鳥取県 Tottori 西伯郡 Saihaku district 中山町 Nakayama

sumiyakifu 炭焼夫 worker making charcoal
Once a charcoal maker changed the stick he used for a Kakuremino and uchiwa 団扇 fan of the local Tengu.
Now he could escape from the severe eyes of the other villagers.

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Tengu no koma 天狗のこま

昔、まわりを深い杉の木立でぐるっと囲まれた小さな村に、国清寺という寺がありました。寺の周りも深い杉の木立が取り巻いており、昼間でも尚暗く、その上その杉木立の中には昔から「天狗の鼻」と呼ばれる、奇妙な形をした岩が祀られていたそうな。

さて、この国清寺にはいたずら者の「一兆さん」という小僧さんがいました。この一兆さんの悪戯には、和尚さんもほとほと手を焼いておられました。

和尚さんがお出かけで不在の時などは、一兆さんは修行もせず、村の子供たちとコマ回しをして遊んでいました。一兆さんのコマは強く、他のコマを弾き飛ばし、みんなのコマを巻き上げてしまうほどでした。

そんな一兆さんでしたが、たった一つだけ怖いことがありました。それは夜に便所に行くことです。今夜も寺の長い長い廊下を思い切って駆けて行き、渡し板を渡って便所に駆け込みました。やっとの思いで用を足して戻ってくると、先ほど渡った廊下の渡し板が落ちて部屋に戻れなくなっていました。

その時、天狗がばたばたっと一兆さんの周りに降り立ったかと思うと、あっというまに一兆さんの体は宙に持ち上げられ、何やら真っ暗い場所に連れさられてしまいました。天狗たちは、いたずら者の一兆さんを天狗に変えようとしました。一兆さんが必死に嫌だと抵抗すると、自分の懐（ふところ）にコマが入っているのに気付きました。

コマ回しなら誰にも負けんと思った一兆さんは、天狗達にコマ回しの勝負を持ちかけました。一兆さんは、天狗たち相手に勝って勝って勝ちまくりました。ことごとく負けた天狗達は負けコマを一兆さんの懐にむりやりねじ込むと、ものすごい笑い声と羽音と共に飛び立っていきました。

気が付いてみるとすっかり夜は明けており、一兆さんの懐の中のコマは、不思議なことにすべてキノコに変わっていました。その夜、国清寺では一兆さんの話に大笑いしながら、みんなでお腹いっぱいキノコを食べたということです。
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. Tengu, Karasu Tengu riding a Wild Boar 烏天狗騎猪 .

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The Tengu, and the Woodcutter 山仕事
A tengu bothers a woodcutter, showing off his supernatural abilities by guessing everything the man is thinking. The woodcutter swings his axe, and a splinter of wood hits the tengu on the nose. The tengu flees in terror, exclaiming that humans are dangerous creatures who can do things without thinking about them.

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. tojikomerareta Tengu とじこめられた天狗　a Tengu in confinement .
- Toyama

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- source wikipedia
- source : osugimusicaltheatre.com/tenguartproject

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子てんぐハタキぼうとカラカラザウルス / テングライダー / 大山の天狗さま / 大山の天狗さま ...
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鼻かけ天狗
片羽千里
天狗杉のたたり
力じまん与左衛門
大蔵と天狗どん
干し葉のおじや
鼻高つづみ
すもう小天狗 Sumo Kotengu
天狗のちょうちん
背振山の石楠花 Tengu rhododendron
天狗の花 Tengu no hana
天狗杉 Tengu sugi
天狗の松 Tengu no matsu
大けやきの天狗 Tengu and keyaki
百姓じいさんとてんぐ
てんぐ飛び Tengu tobi
天狗のこま Tengu no Koma
天狗の大うちわ Tengu no oo Uchiwa
こしん坊 Koshin-Bo, Koshinbo
青と赤の天狗さん Green and Red Tengu / 青テングと赤テング (at hukumusume)
ばあさん包み and 天狗岩 Tengu-Iwa
天狗と庄屋さん
牛若丸 Ushiwakamaru
天狗と赤かぶら
炭焼きのむこ入り
旅小僧
天狗のたたり
天狗と留さん
横びらの天狗様
天狗がみこんだ男
天狗のかくれみの kakuremino
天狗の羽うちわ ha-uchiwa
大力大べえ - ”城峰山（じょうみねさん）
大きな運と小さな運
かぶろ様と天狗
唐船淵の主
念仏天狗 Nenbutsu Tengu
天狗のシカ笛
三角の夢
ほらふき天狗 horafuki Tengu
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Joga, Chang-e, Koga Yokai

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Jooga 嫦娥 Joga, Chang'e
Kooga 姮娥（こうが）Koga, Heng'e
Lady Chang-O, The Moon Lady
A sennyo 仙女 Sennyo fairy, nymph from Chinese mythology.

Chang'e flees to the moon (Joga hongetsu tsuki)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

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嫦娥收玉兔 Chang'e receives the Jade Rabbit
Chang'e ordered the moon rabbit to make a new immortality medicine for her once she had ascended to the moon from the earth after consuming the original, which she stole from her husband, so that she could return to him.
Chang'e (嫦娥 Joga) is a Chinese Princess. She drank the Horai Elixir, for which she was imprisoned on the Moon.

Chang'e or Chang-o,
originally known as Heng'e, is the Chinese goddess of the Moon. She is the subject of several legends in Chinese mythology, most of which incorporate several of the following elements: Houyi the archer, a benevolent or malevolent emperor, an elixir of life, and of course, the Moon.
In modern times, Chang'e has been the namesake of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.

There are many tales about Chang'e, including a well-known story which is given as the origin of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. In a very distant past, ten suns had risen together into the skies and scorched the earth, thus causing hardship for the people. The archer Yi shot down nine of them, leaving just one sun, and was given the elixir of immortality as a reward. He did not consume it straight away, but hid it at home, as he did not want to gain immortality without his beloved wife Chang'e. However, while Yi went out hunting, Fengmeng broke into his house and tried to force Chang'e to give him the elixir; she refused and drank it herself. Chang'e then flew upwards towards the heavens, choosing the moon as residence. Yi discovered what had transpired and felt sad, so he displayed the Fruits and Cakes that Chang'e had liked, and gave sacrifices to her.

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The recently rediscovered divination text Guizang contains the story of Chang'e as a story providing the meaning to Hexagram 54 of the I Ching, "Returning Maiden".
On Mid-Autumn Day, the full Moon night of the eighth lunar month, an open-air altar is set up facing the Moon for the worship of Chang'e. New pastries are put on the altar for her to bless. She is said to endow her worshipers with beauty.
- She is also well liked in popular culture ...
- source : wikipedia

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. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 (1715-1783) .

薬盗む女やは有おぼろ月
kusuri nusumu onna ya ha aru oborozuki

A woman has
stolen the elixir of life
the hazy moon
Tr. Allan Persinger

The cut marker YA is in the middle of line 2.

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嫦娥奔月 Jooga tsuki ni noboru
Joga ascending to the Moon
Chinese stamp from 1999

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