Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about TENGU!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the tengu are a legendary creature found in Japanese folk religion . they are considered a type of ykai (supernatural beings) or Shinto kami (gods) the earliest ten the tengu are associated with the ascetic practice of Shugend . they are usually depicted in the garb of their followers, the yamabushi . the garuda is a legendary bird early depictions of tengu show them as kite-like beings who can take a human-like form . their long nose seems to have been conceived in the 14th century . this feature allies them with tengu are most commonly depicted in the yamabushi’s unique costume . due to their priestly aesthetic, they are often shown wielding a staff used by Buddhist monks . ten one account from the Shù Y J describes a dog-like tingu with a sharp beak and upright posture . the 23rd chapter of the Nihon Shoki is generally the name tengu seems to be written in place of that of the garuda in a Japanese sutra called the Emmy Jiz-ky () the name is likely written in the Edo period tengu deity is a monstrous female deity born from the god Susanoo’s spat-out ferocity . an 18th-century book suggests this goddess may be the true predecessor of the tengu are the ghosts of angry, vain, or heretical priests who had fallen on the “tengu-realm” they began to possess people, especially women and girls, and speak through their mouths the tengu of the 13th century were often conceived of as the ghosts of the arrogant . all of their victims would come back in a state of near death or madness, sometimes after eating animal dung the god introduces the notion that not all tengu are equal . the demons of Kurama and Atago are among the most famous daitengu . they are often pictured in a more human- inoue enry described two kinds of tengu in his Tenguron . the konoha-tengu are noted in a book from 1746 called the Shokoku Rijin Dan () the people of Kchi Prefecture on Shikoku believe in a creature called shibaten . it is a small childlike being who loves sum wrestling and sometimes dwells in the water . another water in Kanazawa’s business district Owari in Hreki 5 (1755), it is said that a “tengu tsubute” () was seen . in tokuyama, Ib the tengu’s unpleasant image continued to erode in the 17th century . some stories now presented them as much less malicious, protecting and blessing Buddhist institutions . tengu are worshipped as beneficial kami (gods or revered spirits) in various Japanese religious cults . in the szan Chomon Kish (), written in 1849, the the tengu Sabur of Izuna is worshipped on that mountain and other sacred mountains . the deity is one of the primary deities in the cult, which also has ties to fox so “the old man’s lump removed” (, Kobu-tori Jiisan): an old man has a lump or tumor on his face . “The Old Man’s Lump Removed”: a in the mountains he encounters a band of tengu making merry and joining their dancing . he pleases them so much that they want him to join them the next night, and offer a gift for him scoundrel obtains tengu’s magic fan, which can shrink or grow noses . he secretly extends the nose of a rich man’s daughter, and then shrinks it again . “the Tengu, and the Woodcutter”: a tengu bothers a woodcutter . he shows off his supernatural abilities by guessing everything the man is thinking . the gambler is of course legends ascribed to humans great knowledge in the art of skilled combat . reputation seems to have its origins in a legend surrounding the famous warrior . legends eventually attributed to them great knowledge of the art . the child was exiled to the temple on Mount Kurama and became a monk . but he encountered a mountain’s tengu, Sjb, who taught him swordsmanship a story tells of a girl with poor manual dexterity who is suddenly possessed by a tengu . the spirit wishes to rekindle the declining art of swordsmanship in the world the Unicode Emoji character U+1F47A () represents a tengu, under the name “Japanese Goblin”. “The Tengu”. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. 36 (2) “The Fox and the Badger in Japanese Folklore”. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. 36 (3): 107–116. Fister, Pat (1985). “Tengu, the Mountain Goblin”. In Stephen Addiss (ed.). Japanese Ghosts and Demons. New York: George Braziller, Inc. pp. 103–112. ISBN 978-0-8076-1126-5. Mizuki Shigeru No Nihon Ykai Meguri (2001). Japan: JTB. pp. ISBN 978-4-533-03956-0. Mizuki, Shigeru (2003). ISBN 978-4-86133-005-6. Mizuki, Shigeru (2003). Mizuki, Shigeru (2004). Mujara 4: Chgoku/Shikoku-hen. Japan: Soft Garage. ISBN 978-4-86133-016-2. Moriarty, Elizabeth (1972). “The Communitarian Aspect of Shinto Matsuri”. Asian Folklore Studies. 31 (2): 91–140. doi:10.2307/1177490. Seki, Keigo (1966). “Types of Japanese Folktales”. Asian Folklore Studies. 25: 1–220. doi:10.2307/1177478. JSTOR 1177478. JSTOR 177479.