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10 May 2018

TENGU - Tengu Iwa boulder rock


- BACK to the Daruma Museum -
. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
. Tengupedia - 天狗ペディア - Tengu ABC-List.
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Tenguiwa, Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 / テングイワ / Tengu no Iwa 天狗の岩
Legends about Tengu boulders and rocks
Tenguishi, Tengu-Ishi 天狗石 Tengu Ishi, Tengu stone


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



. Join the Tengu friends on Facebook .


..... the tengu-ishi (falling stones or pebbles), also have the character of a sudden event in the solitude of the mountains or forests.
The main point of the inauspicious activities of the medieval tengu may be described as anti-Buddhism.
- source : Asian Mythologies Yves Bonnefoy -

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............................................................................... Ehime 愛媛県 
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今治市 Imabara 大三島町 Omishima

. Tenguiwa, Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 "Tengu rock" .
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Yokomakura no Iwa 横枕の岩





............................................................................... Fukui 福井県 
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今立郡 Imadate district 池田町 Ikeda

When they were digging a canal for 月ヶ瀬用水 the Tsukigase Waterway, a Tengu came and disturbed them, throwing stones.
One of the workers went to Shikoku to pray at Konpira san and after that, the Tengu did not show up any more.
One of the rocks along the Waterway is called Tengu Iwa 天狗岩 "Tengu Rock".

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遠敷郡 Onyu district 名田庄村 Natasho

. Yama no Kami 山の神 God of the Mountain and Tengu legends .





............................................................................... Fukushima 福島県 
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南会津郡 Minami-Aizu district 大宮村 Omiya mura

Below the Tengu-Iwa there is a 天狗堂 Tengu Hall on the mountain road. There are a lot of tama-ishi 玉石 cobble stones. The villagers say they have been thrown from the opposite mountain by another Tengu during a fight.

南郷の天狗伝説 with photos
- reference source : minamiaizukankou/archives... -

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南郷村 Nango mura

Tengu ishi 天狗石 / O-Degu Sama オデグ様
O-Degu Sama (Tengu Sama) is a male deity. Once he played with a woman on the other side of the river, throwing pebbles at each other.
These are the Tengu Ishi. They sometimes fall down from the mountain even in our time.





............................................................................... Gunma 群馬県 

Tenguiwa Jinja 天狗岩神社 Shrine Tenguiwa



群馬県吾妻郡長野原町長野原打越 / Naganohara, Agatsuma District, Gunma
- HP of the shrine : plala.or.jp/tenguiwa... -

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前橋市 Maebashi


The Tenguiwa yoosui 天狗岩用水 Tenguiwa irrigation canal

is a name for two canals:
In 1604, 秋元長朝 Akimoto Nagatomo started the 越中堀 Etchubori canal .
In 1610, 伊那忠次 / 伊奈 忠次 Ina Tadatsugu (1550 – 1610) built the 代官堀 Daikanbori canal.



During the construction of the Etchubori, there was a huge boulder blocking the way. There came a Yamabushi mountain priest (a Tengu) and offered some prayers - now the boulder could be removed.
Thanks to the canals the Akimoto clan could extend its fields and agriculture land.
The greatfull farmers built a temple in honor of Akimoto, 光厳寺 Kogan-Ji and
erected a memorial stone, 力田遺愛碑 Ryokudeniai no hi.



Later in the Meiji period, the fifth hydroelectric power plant in Japan was built here.
- reference source : kanto/nouson/sekkei/kokuei... -

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多野郡 Tano district 上野村 Ueno

A hunter had been bewitched by a Tengu and made grappling with the root of a tree the whole night.
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Mount Hotakayama 武尊山 is a place where the Tengu live and where the Shugendo priests have a training area.
There are sanctuaries for 大天狗、小天狗の祠 the Big and Small Tengu, a 天狗屋根 Tengu Yane and a Tengu-Iwa.
. Tenguiwa, Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 "Tengu rock" - Photo - .





............................................................................... Iwate 岩手県  
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岩手町 Iwate city

If the Tengu comes to sit on the Tengu-Iwa and hit his drum, there will be fine weather in the coming year.

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東磐井郡 Higashi-Iwai district 大東村 Daito son 京津畑集落 Kyotsuhata


source snd photos : akarin-yama.at.webry.info...

On 天狗岩山 Mount Tenguiwayama (772 m)
there lived a Tengu. When the Tengu died, the mountain got its name.
On its top is a huge boulder. If it falls down one day, it will be back in its position the next morning.
The mountain is used as farmland up to about 720 m.

toraneko 虎猫 tabby
At a nunnery in Kyotsuhata there lived a tabby cat loved by all. The cat even got アンズキ飯 rice with auspicious red beans. When the cat died, they put some of this rice in the coffin and carried it to Mount Tenguiwa. The nuns begun to chant
虎や虎や、南無虎や、アンズキ飯の御徳や
Dear Tabby, Oh, Dear Tabby, It is all by virtue of the read beans rice.




............................................................................... Kagawa 香川県  
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小豆郡 Shozu district

. Tengu no kamikakushi 天狗と神かくし kidnapped, abduction .





............................................................................... Kanagawa 神奈川県  

Tengu Ishi 天狗石 Tengu Stone
A child that had been missing for a while was heard crying on the mountain on the other side of the valley.
It must have been abducted by a Tengu. On the mountain near 舟原 Funabara there is a Tengu Ishi.





............................................................................... Kochi 高知県 
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土佐山 Tosayama

Once upon a time, a man had gotten secret teachings from a Tengu and could perform various rituals and spells.
At a festival, he exchanged questions and answers with a Tengu for a long time, but the other villagers could not hear or see a thing. Later they named the spot Tengu-Iwa and came to celebrate there once a year.




............................................................................... Kyoto 京都府  
京丹波町 Kyo-Tanba

Once upon a very long time, the Tengu frequently came to take a rest on the Tenguiwa.




............................................................................... Miyagi 宮城県  
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本吉郡 Motoyoshi district 南三陸町 Minamisanriku

Once upon a time, a Tengu had come all the way from 岩木山 Mount Iwakisan in Aomori, but by mistake he hurt his eye at the 杉 pine tree. The Tengu cut down the tree and placed a huge stone in its place, this is now the Tenguishi, Tengu Ishi 天狗石 Tengo stone.




............................................................................... Nagano 長野県 

Nobutaroo 信太郎 Nobutaro
Once Nobutaro went with a friend to 有明山 Mount Ariakeyama. When they tried to jump over the Tenguiwa, their bodies became an enormous in size and they jumped over 馬羅尾谷 Baraodani valley and disappeared.
Nobutaro's father 久作 Kyusaku, who had lost his only son, went everywhere to look for him. He could not find him and had to work in the fields all alone from that time on.
He build a small sanctuary for Nobutaro, 信の宮 Nobu no Miya.


有明山 Mount Ariakeyama (2268m).
Ariakeyama is also called Shino Fuji 信濃富士 Mount Fuji of the Shino region.

. Ariakeyama 有明山 Ariakesan, Mount Ariake .


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飯山市 Iiyama

On top of 高社山 Mount Koshasan (1,352 m) there is a 天狗岩 Tengu Iwa.

Tenguiwayama 天狗岩山 (1,070 m)

Locates in the Eastern part of the mountain range, this peak is seldom climbed by mountaineers.
There are a few waterfalls on the way up.
山頂にはかなり古い年代の自然石石碑と山頂標板があるだけで、 展望も西方が僅かに開けているだけです。地形図には山名がありませんが、滝ノ沢川の源頭と言うことから地元では呼んでいます。
地形図にもその名が記されている天狗岩山ですが、長野県に数多くある天狗(天狗山・天狗岳他)と名のつく山で、登山道がないのは この天狗岩山だけかも知れません。
- reference source : naganoken.jp/mount/hokushin/shiga-w/tenguiwa... -

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北佐久郡 Kita-Saku district 立科町 Tateshina

Many Tengu came together at the top of this boulder. On orders of the deity 立科明神 Tateshina Myojin to figure out the 善悪 good and evil in this world.

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Suwa, 上諏訪町 Kami-Suwa machi

Tengu Ishi 天狗石 Tengu Stone
In 大和 Yamato at Kami-Suwa there is a Tengu Stone. They say it looks just like a Tengu face, hence the name.
Others say once a Tengu had come down here to take a rest.





............................................................................... Okayama 岡山県 
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鏡野町 Kagamino


source and more photos : geocities.jp/komaithi/b/ctenguiwa...
鏡野町上斎原天狗岩 Kagamino Kamisaibara 1,196 m high


source and more photos : sanjyuunin-kagaminotyou...

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苫田郡 Tomata district 富村 Tomison

Tenguiwa, Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 Tengu Iwa boulder
The Tengu from 大山 Mount Daisen sometimes comes here to rest his wings. In winter people can here a strange sound of flapping wings and there will be snow the next day.
There is also the phenomenon of
. Tengu-daoshi, Tengu daoshi 天狗倒し "Tengu knocking down trees" .





............................................................................... Saitama 埼玉県 
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奥秩父 Oku-Chichibu

. Tenguiwa, Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 "Tengu boulder" .
and the Tengu from 倉尾村 Kurao and 小鹿野町 Ogano
There was a Tengu Boulder near the waterfall 七代の滝 Nanayo no Taki, where a Tengu lived. Once a priest from the nearby temple used it to pee.
If the visitors in his temple wanted to eat Tofu from Tokoy, the Tengu went off to fetch it in no time.

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Kokushidake no Tengu-Iwa 国師岳の天狗岩 Tengu Rock, Tengu Boulder
Mount Kokushidake is 2591 m high.






............................................................................... Shiga 滋賀県 
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伊香郡 Ina district 余呉町 Yogo

In a place called 平洞 Hedo in the middle of the mountain there is a matsu 松 pine tree, where the Tengu comes to rest.
There is also a Tengu-Iwa nearby.

. Tengu to matsu 天狗と松 Legends about the Tengu pine .




............................................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県 
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榛原郡 Haibara district 本川根町 Honkawane



Tenguishiyama 天狗石山Mount Tenguishiyama 1,366 m
If there is fog on Mount Tenguishi, it is going to rain

- There are other mountains with this name in Japan.

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浜松市 Hamamatsu 三ケ日町 Mikkabi

There is a Tengu-Iwa where a Tengu lives and parents tell their children, if they do not behave, the Tengu will come and get them.
If you see the Tengu, put your zoori 草履 straw sandals on your head to hide!

. waraji - zoori 草鞋- 履 と伝説 Legends about straw sandals .

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庵原郡 Ihara 両河内村 Ryogochi

A man was making charcoal near the Tengu-Iwa. Suddenly he heard a loud noise, like flutes and drums for a festival. But he could not see anybody.
This was the doing of the local Tengu.




............................................................................... Tokushima 徳島県  
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海部郡 Ama district 宍喰町 Shishikui

At the Tengu-Iwa there are imprints of the geta 下駄 wooden clogs of the Tengu and the hooves of his horse.
Once at New Year an old lady living nearby heard the sound of drums and festival bells and became so afraid, she shut all the doors and windows of her home.

. geta 下駄 ashida 足駄 Geta wooden clogs and legends .





............................................................................... Tokyo 東京都 

琴平神社の天狗岩 Kotohira Jinja, Tengu-Iwa



東京都あきる野市五日市 / Itsukaichi, Akiruno, Tokyo
- reference source : blog.goo.ne.jp/ruribo0209... photos -




............................................................................... Tottori 鳥取県 
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岩美郡 Iwami district

Once a man faced a financial problem near a place called Zenibatake ゼニバタケ / 銭畑 "Field of Zeni coins" in front of the Tengu-Iwa.
Suddenly a Tengu appeared and spread a lot of zeni out for him.

. zeni, kozeni 銭、小銭 coins of Edo .

. Tengu to zeni 天狗と銭 Legends about Tengu and coins .




............................................................................... Yamagata 山形県 
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Tengu Ishi 天狗石 Tengu Stone

On the 10th day of the first lunar month, many Tengu gather at Mount Tengusumotoriyama to have a contest.
There is a mountain called 二ッ石山 Futatsuishiyama "Mountain with two stones", where once two 天狗石 Tengu-Ishi had been.



. Tengu sumootori yama 天狗角力取山 Tengusumotoriyama
Mountain where Tengu practise Sumo wrestling .


and

Mt. Tenguishi, Ogure, Kitahiroshima, Yamagata District, Hiroshima Prefecture





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みなべ町 Manabe

In 名之内 Myonouchi there are two rocks called Tengu-Iwa. The Tengu come here to rest.


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

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

. Tengupedia - 天狗ペディア - Tengu ABC-List.


. Legends about Kobo Daishi Kukai - 弘法大師 空海 - 伝説 .

. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .

- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -

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Posted By Gabi Greve to Heian Period Japan on 4/10/2018 02:01:00 pm

22 Apr 2018

TENGU - Tengu no Dairi Palace Emaki

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. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
. Tengupedia - 天狗ペディア - Tengu ABC-List.
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Tengu no Dairi 天狗の内裏 The Palace of the Tengu
'The Palace of the Long-Nosed Goblins'


. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
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This is a story about the young Minamoto no Yoshitsune, who is taken on a tour of the underworld by a Tengu from Mount Kurama.
Written in the Muromachi period.
This story exists in numerous lavish picture scrolls and woodblock-printed editions in libraries and museums around the world.

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Ushiwaka's "Visit to Supernatural Regions (Tengu no dairi)
In this story, Ushiwaka learns of the existence of a tengu palace deep in the mountains and by offering prayers to Bishamon succeeds in visiting it.
The Great Tengu welcomes him hospitably and offers to take him to see Yoshitomo (his father), who has been reborn in the Pure Land as a Buddha. Following a tour of the 136 Buddhist hells, the two finally reached the Pure Land.
Yoshitomo urges Ushiwaka to destroy the Heike and then predicts his future.
Back in the Tengu palace, Ushiwaka and the Great Tengu exchange pupil-teacher vows
and Ushiwaka returns to Kurama.
Yoshitsune: A Fifteenth-century Japanese Chronicle
- source : Helen Craig McCullough -
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Tengu no dairi emaki 天狗の内裏絵巻
picture scroll of the palace of the long-nosed goblins,

illustrated manuscript in 2 rolls, telling the story of the young Minamoto Yoshitsune
and of his visit to the court of Tengu.







Yoshitsune watches the Tengu fighting



- Yoshitsune And A Buddha
- source : akg-images.com/archive... British Library -


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. The Tengu Sōjōbō 僧正坊 from Mount Kurama .
and 源義経 Minamoto no Yoshitsune 




. Join the Tengu friends on Facebook .

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

. Tengupedia - 天狗ペディア - Tengu ABC-List.


. Legends about Kobo Daishi Kukai - 弘法大師 空海 - 伝説 .

. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .

- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -

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Posted By Gabi Greve to Heian Period Japan on 4/12/2018 01:41:00 pm

16 Apr 2018

TENGU - Tengu legends 07 Fukui


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. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .
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Tengu 天狗と伝説 - 福井県 Legends about Tengu in Fukui

. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
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. Join the Tengu friends on Facebook .


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. 王の舞 O no Mai (Onomai) dance of the king .



若狭 Wakasa, 宇波西神社 Shrine Uwase Jinja, on April 8th.



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. kamikakushi 神かくし / カミカクシ mysterious disappearance .
kidnapped by a Tengu
今立郡 Imadate district 池田町 Ikeda //


. Karasutengu, Karasu Tengu 烏天狗 Crow Tengu .
三方郡 Mikata district

. Yama no Kami 山の神 God of the Mountain and Tengu .
武生市 Takefu 坂口村 Sakaguchi


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Tengu matsuri 天狗祭 Tengu festival
During a local Tengu festival, someone put a glass of Sake 酒 rice wine on a branch of the tree. And a few days later, the Sake had all gone . . . Tengu like to drink!

Another person often went to 酒倉 the storehouse for Sake. There lived also a Tengu, and since the Tengu does not like to drink alone, this man kept him company.

If someone denies the wish of a Tengu to play with him, his home will be cursed. The roof might be blown away and stones are thrown at the walls.

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tsurube otoshi つるべおとし a bucket thrown down in the well
Sometimes there is the sound of something coming from above, that is the Tengu. He sits on an old tree and if a child has done something bad, he pulls it up (in a bucket).
Tengu also like fire. If someone walks alone at night and sees a flame, he is surely fooled by the Tengu.


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. tsurube otoshi 釣瓶落し fast sunset in autumn .
lit. "the sun goes down like a bucket trown in the well"

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In one valley there lived a Tengu.
Although there is nobody to be seen, there is the sound of someone felling a tree. This must be the Tengu.

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彦作 Hikosaku was on his way home at night, when a Tengu came along. The tengu asked him for fire to have a puff of tobacco. Hikosaku tried to make fire with カドイシ his flint stone and the Tengu took a leisurely, pleasing puff. Then the Tengu asked him go give him his flint stone and so he gave it to the Tengu.
Hikosaku was blessed by the Tengu and achieved 神通自在 supernatural power for himself.



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Once 屋根葺き the straw roof of a home needed to be done anew and the group who helped each other with this work got together to discuss the proceedings. A Tengu came along and said he would do it all by himself in one night, but nobody was allowed to see it. That night there was quite a noise on the roof, but next morning - indeed - the straw roof was all new. Even the ground before the house was swept clean with no trace of the old straw left.



古峯神社 straw roof at Furumine Jinja, Tochigi

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There was a man named 久左衛門 Kyuzaemon who had good hand lines. Once a Tengu came and borrowed them. As a reward he gave Kyuzaemon one Soy bean to keep as a treasure.
A few years later, there was a great fire in the neighbourhood and many homes burned down. But the house of Kyuzaemon was safe.

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dendeko taiko デンデコ太鼓 dendeko big drum
Dendeko is the big drum of a Tengu. He comes to the village and hits his drum to make people laugh.


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dendeko drums are also known in other parts of Japan. This photo is from Sado Island festival.


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福井市 Fukui city

. loosing a hatchet or sickle in the mountains .
and the saba 鯖 mackerel

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maa san マーサン "Mister Maa"
In the evening there is a Tengu with a long nose sitting on the roof, and people are not allowed to walk under the eaves of this house. This is Maa san.
If the Tengu has kidnapped a child, people search for it under a sugi 杉 cedar tree in the mountain.

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tenjikubana テンジクバナ / 天竺花 flowers from Tenjiku (India)


tenjiku botan 天竺牡丹 "Peony from India"

On the 8th day of the 5th lunar month, people prepare a round flower arrangement with seven different flowers and people have to walk through it. The ring must be put up in the East of the home and be as high as possible.
The seven flowers are:
fuji フジ // tsutsuji ツツジ // yamabuki ヤマブキ // gibooshi ギボウシ // suzume no chabukoro スズメノチャブクロ // kogome コゴメ(クサソテツ) // botan ボタン
If someone has been kidnapped by a Tengu, it is best to take a bunch of these seven flowers and go looking for him. If the person his found, the flowers are burned and the person purified with the smoke.


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今立郡 Imadate district 池田町 Ikeda

Once a man went looking for firewood in the woods and did not come back for a few days. His family begged the Tengu to let him go. The man went to the mountain a few times a year to have drinks with the Tengu.

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Once a family made 酒 Sake at their home. From the nearby hill there came a Tengu with a lantern and sat on a keyaki 欅 zelkova tree. He sneaked into the Sake storage room and drank the rice wine, making a loud noise. The head of the family heard the noise and said:
"We made a good rice wine this year. Even the Tengu has come to taste it!" and all were happy.

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When they were digging a canal for 月ヶ瀬用水 the Tsukigase Waterway, a Tengu came and disturbed them, throwing stones.
One of the workers went to Shikoku to pray at Konpira san and after that, the Tengu did not show up any more.
One of the rocks along the Waterway is called Tengu Iwa 天狗岩 "Tengu Rock".

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In the East of 段の岳 Mount Dannodake (734 m) there lives a Tengu.
If anyone cuts the trees of this forest, his home will suffer a fire.


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美浜町新庄 Mihama

. Hassaku no Abare Tengu festival .
at Hassaku Festival of the Hiyoshi Shrine - the Riot Tengu 暴れ天狗


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三方郡 Mikata district 三方村 Mikata

Tengu no nage-fude 天狗の投げ筆 the brushwork thrown by a Tengu
There is a treasure named Tengu no nage-fude, a calligraphy by a Tengu.
About 300 years ago there was a doctor who was very skillful at writing calligraphy.
One day he met an old man with white hair in the mountain who said: "Please lend me a paper with your calligraphy for two or three days!" The old man was of course a Tengu.
He gave the paper back and the doctor kept it as a hanging scroll, said to protect his home from fire. Later the doctor went broke and gave the scroll away, but the home where the scroll was hung up now burned down.
Only the scroll had jumped from the wall and was safe.


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南條郡 Nanjo district 今庄町 Imajo

Once a man had been fooled by a Tengu and spent the whole night looking for a way out of the mountain. He kept walking until early morning light to find the right way.


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大野市 Ono city

There is a place named bikunin korobashi ビクニン転ばし.
Once upon a time, a nun (bikuni 比丘尼) had tried to climb the mountain, but she got kicked over by a Tengu,
fell down, rolled down all the way and died deep in the valley.


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遠敷郡 Onyu district

A Tengu sitting on a low branch had been visible as a reflection on the water.
A hunter tried to shoot at it, but the Tengu run away just in time. That night the Tengu appeared in the dream of the hunter:
"Why would you try to shoot at some reflection in the water? Don't be stupid when hunting."


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鯖江市 Sabae

Once a samurai walked alone at night and was stopped by a Tengu. The Tengu wanted to have a sword fight with him. The Samurai won the fight and took away the sword of the Tengu.
The sword is still a family treasure.


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坂井郡 Sakai district

During 日清戦争 the Sino-Japanese War, the Tengu had helped and worked at the battlefield.
To show their gratitude, the villagers offered sekihan 赤飯 red ritual rice and Sake at the Torii gate of the Shrine near the sugi 杉 cedar tree where the Tengu lived.
When they tried later to cut the tree, blood came sprouting out of the cut.


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武生市 Takefushi 坂口村 Sakaguchi mura

Around 1910, an old woman went to the mountain to get some hana shikibu はなしきぶ (花式部) Caryopteris xclandonensis flowers.
But she did not come home. They all looked for her for three days and did not find her. Later they found her trapped in the branches of a tree.
She must have opposed a Tengu and he had taken her away as punishment.


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敦賀市 Tsuruga

There are some large rocks where a Tengu lives and all are afraid. Once a man named 三左衛門 Sanzaemon begun making charcoal nearby. The Tengu appeared and said:
"This here is my garden, go home at once. Blow the flute, hit the drum and go down the mountain!"
But the man did not do as told and a few days later the Tengu appeared again.
"I give you one more warning, go home at once!"
Suddenly there was a strong rain and wind and the man climbed down the mountain. But the storm was very strong and the home of Sanzaemon was blown to pieces.



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. Ehime 愛媛県 .
in Ehime 周桑郡 Shuso district 丹原 Tanbara // Mount Ishizuchiyama 石槌山


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Fukui 丹生郡 Nyuu district 越廼村 Koshino mura

Tengu no su 天狗の巣といわれる木 a tree like the nest of a Tengu
Before cutting down a tree with a "nest of a Tengu2 in the branches, the wood cutters have to make an offering of 酒 Sake and cut the root of the tree with one cut, leaving the masakari マサカリ ax on the spot.
If they come back next morning and the Sake and the ax are gone, this is a sighn that it is all right now to cut the tree.


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Ishikawa 石川県

Tengu no ishikoro 天狗の砂礫 gravel of a Tengu / Tengu no su 天狗の巣
Around 1920, suddenly a lot of gravel came flying over from the other side of the valley. The villagers thought this was the mischief of some young folk, but next came a loud noise from the ground, almost an earthquake. Then came more gravel, バラバラゴー barabaragooooooo.

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Yamanokami no hooki 山の神の箒 broom of Yamanokami
In Iwate, a 吉野桜 Yoshinozakura cherry blossom tree which is befallen of the
tengusubyoo 天狗巣病 "nest of a Tegnu", witch's broom disease
is called "Broom of Yamanokami".


A witch's broom or witches' broom is a deformity in a woody plant, typically a tree, where the natural structure of the plant is changed. A dense mass of shoots grows from a single point, with the resulting structure resembling a broom or a bird's nest.
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. Tengu and Yama no Kami 山の神 .

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. Tengupedia - 天狗ペディア - Tengu ABC-List.


. Legends about Kobo Daishi Kukai - 弘法大師 空海 - 伝説 .

. Japanese legends and tales 伝説 民話 昔話 - Introduction .

- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -

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28 Nov 2017

TENGU - Tengu Chiba Legends Masks


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Chiba and its Tengu legends 千葉県と天狗伝説 


Chiba no kotengu 千葉の小天狗 The Small Tengu from Chiba

Chiba Eijiroo 千葉 栄次郎 Chiba Eijiro (1833 - 1862)
A Samurai of the Bakumatsu period. Master of the 北辰一刀流 Hokushin Ittoryu School of Swordsmanship.
He studied with his father, 千葉周作 Chiba Shusaku, and became so proficient, he was called "Small Tengu" at age 19.


千葉栄次郎 - 隊士図鑑

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嶺岡浅間の天狗面 Mineoka Asama Tengu Masks
The Mineoka Mountain District ( 嶺岡山地 Mineoka sanchi).
Mount Mineoka Asama is 336 m high. On its North-Eastern side is a temple housing 白滝不動 Shirataki Fudo and the stone Tengu masks are close to it.


source : toki.moo.jp/gaten.. gate 507...

The stone Tengu on the way have some strange forms, with a protruding mouth and a nose like a dumpling.
The locals call them 石尊山 Sekison San - Venerable Stone Deities .



There are three sanctuaries for the stone Tengu on the way up to Mount Mineoka Asama.







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Sekison San 石尊山 Venerable Stone Deities
The belief in Sekison San is known in the Tanzawa mountains, Oyama and at 富士山新五合目小御岳石尊 the 5th station of Mount Fujisan,
石尊様 Sekison Sama are also venerated in Gunma, 甘楽郡 Kanragun 南牧村 Nanmoku village.


Sekison and Fudo Myo-O at 小畑池 Obataike,銚子 Choshi, Chiba

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高宕山 Takagoyama - 315 m high
From its peak there is a great view over the Kujukutani mountains, Tokyo Bay and all the way to Mount Fujisan.
Now the center of 県立高宕山自然公園, Takagoyama Prefectural Natural Park in South-central Chiba.


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Kujukutani 千葉 九十九谷
Kujukutani is the landscape of the row of mountains seen from the Kujukutani Park down from Shiratori Shrine at the southeastern end of Mt. Kano in Kimitsu City, Chiba Pref. The mountains including Mt. Takago are part of Boso Kyuryo (hills).
This picturesque landscape is composed of deep valleys and overlapping mountain ridgelines, which is selected as one of 500 Charming Spots in Boso. Purple mists at dawn or the after grow of a sunset creates a magnificent scene like an ink painting. Especially beautiful is the sea of clouds trailing along the ridgelines and fading out into the air, which can be seen from the late fall to winter.
A poet, Keigetsu Omachi, described it as "the most wonderful sight in the world." It is said that an artist painter, Kaii Higashiyama, was inspired with this landscape and painted one of his masterpieces, "Afterglow."
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高宕山源頼朝と天狗面 Takagoyama and the Tengu Mask of Minamoto to Yoritomo
飯縄寺 Iizunadera Temple (Iinawadera)
千葉県いすみ市岬町和泉2935-1 / Chiba, Isumi, Misakichoizumi, 2935-1


source : toki.moo.jp/gaten/851-900..gate888...

Mount Takagoyama is 雨乞いの山 a mountain for rain rituals. At 清滝神社 Kiyotaki Jinja a small shrine the Waterfall Deity is venerated as 高オカミ神 the Mountain Deity.
(The old Kanji for this spelling is rain 雨 on top and below it three open mouths 口. Below it the Kanji for a dragon 龍 - a very complicated Kanji indeed, 高おかみ神.)
Below this shrine is the Kannon hall in a cave, protecting the Tengu masks.
Once upon a long time, Minamoto no Yoritomo had to flee from 小田原の石橋山 the lost battle in Odawara and took refuge here. Yoritomo stayed in the Kannon cave (高宕観音 Takago Kannon) and prayed for the return of his good luck and victory. On the pillars of this cave-hall hang the Tengu masks.

高宕山 The Kanji in the middle, 宕, refers to the cave, and this reminded people of the famous 愛宕山 Atagoyama in Kyoto.
Maybe the Tengu from Atagoyama even came here to visit ? ??

Kuraokami, Takaokami 高おかみ神 , Kuramitsuha Kuraokami no kami, Takaokami no kami
. amagoi 雨乞い rain rituals - Introduction .


淤加美神(おかみのかみ)、または龗神(おかみのかみ) - Okaminokami - 闇龗神と高龗神は同一の神. - Takaokami

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観音堂の天狗面 The Tengu Masks of the Kannon-Hall


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牛若丸と大天狗 Ushiwakamaru and the Dai-Tengu

Iizuna temple is known as the 天狗の寺"Tengu Temple".
People come here to pray fpr fire prevention, safety on the sea, prosperous business and health.
The temple treasure is a wood carving of about 4 m length and 1 m hight by the famous carver 波の伊八 Nami no Ihachi.
It shows 牛若丸と天狗 Ushiwakamaru and the Tengu.
At the 仁王門 Nio-Mon entrance gate is a carving of a Tengu riding the waves.

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- reference source : isumi-kankou.com/isumi-kanko...-

. Minamoto no Yoritomo 源 頼朝 . - (1147 – 1199)
founder of the Kamakura Shogunate

. Iizuna Daigongen 飯縄大権現 Izuna Daigongen .

. 飯綱三郎天狗 Izuna Saburo Tengu .
He lives on Mount Iizunayama 飯砂山 / 飯綱山 in Nagano.

. Nami no Ihachi 波の伊八 "Ihachi the carver of waves" .
(1751-1824)
Dragon and waves 竜と波 at temple 飯縄寺 Izunadera.

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. Legends and Tales from Japan 伝説 - Introduction .

Once there were two brothers, but the younger brother suddenly went off and was lost.
Afterwards a typhoon begun to blow and from the top of a cedar tree the voice of the man was heard "I am back, I am back!"
He had become a guhin 狗賓 Tengu and is still living to our day.

. guhin kuhin gubin 狗賓 / グヒン Guhin Tengu Yokai monster .

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長生郡 Chosei district 長柄町 Nagara town

Someone cut the weeds below the 天狗の腰かけ松 Pine of the Tengu. The Tengu got angry, abducted him and when the man came back, he had a bad injury.
. Tengu no koshikake matsu 天狗の腰掛松 / Tengu no matsu 天狗の松 .
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Aoso sama 青麻様 "Green Hemp Deity"
The protecting deity of the 鹿間家 Shikama family is Aoso Sama, said to be a Tengu. He protects from 中風 palsy. Its annual rituals are on the first of April and September.
The offering is red rice and never pumpkin or leek, since he does not like these vegetables.
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A child once saw a Tengu on the bridge of 東茂原 Higashi Mobara. Soon after the child got ill and died.
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A Tengu once shape-shifted and worked at a temple in I市原 chihara town. When the priest asked him to get some Tofu he flew all the way to Kyoto to buy it.
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Many Tengu sometimes came to the 権現森 Gongenmori Park and made music with flutes and drums.
(Gongen Mori is a hill in Chiba and is nearby are Nagarayama and Rokujizō. 権現森自然公園.)

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館山市 Tateyama city

At 滝田 Takita there is 天狗の通り道 a Tengu road, where they pass with the most strange sounds when flying past. It is a rather deep forest and sometimes the forest workers, who stay over night in a small hut, can feel it moving and shaking.
. madoo 魔道 - まどう Mado, road where monsters pass .

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A villager from 八束村 Yatsukamura village has seen a Tengu in the mountain forest, reading a book.

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On mount 伊予ケ岳 Iyogatake in the village 平群村 Hegurimura near 岩井 Iwai there lived a Tengu.
The warden of the small shrine could tell his temper: On good days the water bucket was filled by the Tengu, on bad days it was empty.



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Mount Iyogatake (伊予ヶ岳 Iyoga-take) is a mountain on the border of the city of Minamibōsō, Chiba Prefecture, with an altitude of 336.6 m (1,104 ft).
Mount Iyogatake is at the west of the Mineoka Mountain District of the Bōsō Hill Range, in close proximity to Mount Tomi. The mountain takes its name from its resemblance to Mount Ishizuchi in Ehime Prefecture, formerly in Iyo Province.
Mount Iyogatake is one of the few mountains in the Bōsō Hill Range with steep rock cliff. It can be easily climbed within 40 minutes. The entrance to the path of the mountain is between Heguri Elementary School and the Heguri Tenjin Shrine. Mount Iyogatake offers a clear view of the other mountains of the Bōsō Hill Range and Tokyo Bay, and on clear days Mount Fuji and the Izu Islands are also visible.
Mount Iyogatake and the Heguri Tenjin Shrine are associated with a legend of a tengu, a supernatural creature found in Japanese folklore.
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Sometimes the Tengu came down to the village to pester the farmers, steal the rice from their barn or the vegetables from their fields. But the villagers feared the curse of this Tengu and could do nothing. The Tengu took advantage of their fear and one day threw a letter into a farmhouse:
"Tonight at the full moon, bring the most beautiful girl of Heguri village to the Shrine 天神社 Tenjin Sha at the foot of Mount Iyogatake. If you do not obey, I will use my 天狗の団扇 Tengu fan and blast away your whole village in a storm!"
The farmer was struck with fear and went to the village headman for advice. He headman was very clever and said:
"If the Tengu will use his fan, we can use our own fan to teach him a lesson!"
He made a fan three times bigger as the one used by the tengu, climbed Mount Iyogatake and showed it to the Tengu. The Tengu wanted to have it and exchanged it for his own.
When he next tried to use the new fan to fly down to the village, he fell from the mountain - he had lost his 神通力 magical power.
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Another legends tells of this vicious Tengu feared by all villagers, who was just friends with one man,
定さん Sada san. Sada san was the second son of a rich farmer. Sada san had once picked up the fan of the Tengu on the foot of the mountain and brought it back. The Tengu was very greatful and invited him for a delicious meal.
As you know, a Tengu needs his fan to be able to fly around in the sky.
The man, who knew the others did not like the Tengu, was glad he had given the fan back and received a meal instead, so the two became friends. The man went up to the Tengu's living quarters many times to eat and tell all in the village about his new friend.
Thus he helped to make the Tengu quite famous . . . to our day, it seems.
Once the Tengu boasted:
"I can fly to all the way Shikoku to 像頭山 Mount Zuzu-San and the temple at 金琴平山 Konpira-San and come back in no time at all!"
Sada doubted this, but the Tengu wielded his fan and slowly disappeared in the sky. Since he did not come back, Sada san went home to sleep. When he opened the shutters next morning he saw an amulet from the famous temple at Konpira San on his doorstep. This must have been placed there by his friend, the Tengu.



source : toki.moo.jp/gaten,,097...

Once upon a time, the Tengu from Iyogatake abducted an acolyte, the son of 小松民部正寿 Komatsu Minbu Masatoshi, from the temple 小松寺 Komatsu-Ji in 千倉 Chikura and much later they found the boy at Iyogatake.
Much later.
Once in summer during the rainy season, villagers were cleaning up the mountain. When they emptied a trash box on the wayside, a large mukade ムカデ centipede came out of it.

At the top of the mountain is a Shinto sanctuary dedicated to
少比名命 Sukunahiko no Mikoto.

Stories about a Tengu living on this mountain date back to 921 and the curse of Sugawara no Michizane.






- - - - - Heguri Tenjin Sha 平久里天神社 / 平群天神社
千葉県南房総市平久里中207 // 207 Hegurinaka, Minamibōsō-shi, Chiba

- Deities in residence
菅原道真 Sugawara Michizane (Tenjin sama)
木花開耶姫命 Konohana Sakuyahime no Mikoto
天照大日霎貴命 あまてらすおおひるめのみこと Amaterasu Ohirome no Mikoto
建御名方神 Takeminakata-no-kami


This shrine was founded in 1353, when collecting money for the 北野天満宮 Kitano Tenmangu Shrine.
Later in 1586, it was rebuilt on orders of the local lord, 里見義頼 Satomi Yoshiyori (1542 - 1587).
Later in 1808, it was rebuilt by priest 法印宥弘.
It was the protector shrine of the 9 villages comprizing Heguri, but during the Meiji restauration it lost its power.





. Sugawara Michizane 菅原道真 - Tenjin Sama .

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27 Oct 2017

TENGU - Tengu Legends 03 Akita


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Tengu 天狗と伝説 - 秋田県 Legends about Tengu in Akita

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In the year 1826, farmers were looking for edible mountain plants at 大股沢 Omatazawa along the 奥羽山脈 Ou mountain range.
One of them had the feeling of being lifted up into the sky and indeed went up. The others searched for her and found her about 8 km further on the peak of 真昼岳 Mount Mahiru, where she was asleep. She did not remember a thing of her Tengu ride.



............................................................................... 平鹿郡 Hiraka district
Hiraka - 山内村 Sannai

numa no nushi 沼の主 Lord of the Swamp
The Lord of 仙台の赤沼 the Red Swamp from Sendai had asked 天狗の玉 the King of the Tengu to take her beautiful elder sister and throw her over her back into 福万の黒沼 the Black Swamp of Fukuman.
Other versions talk about a letter to be transferred by the Tengu, or by a traveller who became quite rich after that. Or he found a gold mine nearby?!
The Lord of the Black Swamp was 女神 a female deity.



This "Black Swamp" appeared after a large earthquake in 827. It is 12 m deep. It never dries out, not even in a drought. At the Shrine 黒沼神社 Kuronuma Jinja a dragon deity is venerated.
During the construction of the 大松川ダム Daimatsukawa Dam there was a small hamlet deep in the valley called 福万 Fukuman, an auspicious name for good luck.
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There are many stones which the Tengu use to play. If humans move these stones, there will be rain.






............................................................................... 北秋田郡 Kitaakita district, Kita-Akita

阿仁町 Ani, village of bear hunters - 天狗岳 Mount Tengudake
When the hunters enter Mount Tengudake, they can hear the Tengu play drums.



Tengu-dake (985 m), in the Shirakami-sanchi 白神山地 Shirakami mountain range.





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At 長嶺村 Nagamine village there is a famous Bugaku dance, uhenmai 烏遍舞 Uhen-mai .
It refers to the venarable Danburi Chōja ダンブリ長者 Danburi Elder, who opened the road between
小豆沢 Azusawa and 湯瀬 Yuze.
To build the bridge, he invited a Tengu to help.



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Dainichido Bugaku (Japanese: 大日堂舞楽, literally: Important Day Dance)
is a yearly set of nine sacred ritual dances and music, named for the imperial palace ensemble performances, "bugaku", and from the palace's ensemble's visit to Hachimantai, Kazuno District, Akita Prefecture, during the reconstruction of the local shrine pavilion, "Dainichido", in the early eighth century, and their teaching of dances to the locals.
Instruments include the flute and taiko drums. The order and number of dances has changed over time, with the current order of seven dances being the Gongen-mai, Koma-mai, Uhen-mai, Tori-mai, Godaison-mai, Kōshō-mai, and Dengaku-mai dances. Masks include representations of shishi lions and Vairocana.
The dances have a 1300-year history (Nara period),
and though interrupted for nearly sixty years in the late eighteenth century, the dances, some of which may include children or masks, are still practiced on January second from sunrise to noon in shrines throughout communities in Osato, Azukisawa, Nagamine, and Taniuchi, including Hachimantai.



Yamaji Kōzō dates Dainichido Bugaku as arising during and after the Nara (CE 710 to 794) and mid-Heian periods (CE 794 to 1185), after state support of Shinto temple complexes (originally ordered by Emperor Shōmu (CE 701 – 756)) began to decline and court and temple performers took residence in local communities, which then preserved genres such as Dainichido Bugaku as folk arts.
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Senboku - 角館町 Kakunodate

tobi shinchiko 飛びシンチコ the "Flying Shinchiko" penis
A lazy sloth had deceived a Tengu and got a kakure-mino 隠れ蓑 the magic cloak from him, which makes him invisible.
He used his invisible status to perform all kinds of bad deeds. So his mother (other versions say his wife) burned the cloak. But even the ashes had the same effect.

He spread the ashes all over his body, but forgot to put it on his shinchiko シンチコ (local dialect for penis). That is why he was called 飛びシンチコ the "Flying Shinchiko".
This story is told at 角館總鎭守 神明社 the Shrine Shinmei-Sha.

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akatendori, aka tendori 赤テンドリ red Tendori Yokai monster
If a child cries, villagers at the foot of 愛宕山 Mount Atagoyama try to make it stop by saying:
赤テンドリが飛んで来る The red Tendori is coming to fly here!
or
天狗の太鼓が聞える Tengu will beat his drum !
akatendori o tobasu 赤テンドリを飛す To make the Aka Tendori fly away,
is said when farmers make a fire in their irori 囲炉裏 open hearth in the home to boil water or cook.




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Senboku - 西仙北町 Nishisenboku

juuroku tengu 十六天狗 Tengu on day 16
tengumochi 天狗餅 Tengu mochi rice cakes

On the 16th day of the third, ninth and 10th lunar month people make special mochi rice cakes and offer them to Tengu Sama.
(This is the day after the full moon night.)
The Mochi are fixed to the pole outside the house before anybody has left in the morning. They will protect the people from getting ill.
These Mochi may not be carried over a bridge.
These Mochi are also called fukidori mochi フキドリ餅.




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A man got a kakure-mino 隠れ蓑 the magic invisible cloak and performed all kinds of bad deeds. But when his cload burned down, he was soon found out.


. Tengu no Kakuremino 天狗の隠れみの The Tengu's Magic Cloak - Tales .

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


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tengumochi 天狗餅 Tengu mochi rice cakes



Fukumochi Tengumochi 福餅 天狗餅 Mochi for Good Luck, Mochi for Tengu

. mochi 餅 rice cakes .
Making special MOCHI is an important ritual for many festivals.

Sometimes the Tengu himself has to pound the rice for Mochi.


source : bankun.jp/staff_blog/fukuoujinja...

天狗の福もちつき Tengu pounding Fukumochi
at the Autumn shrine festival of
. Fukuo Jinja 福王神社 Fukuo Shrine, Mie .


tengu no chikaramochi 天狗の力餅 Tengu Mochi to become strong


from 錦花堂 Kinkado - Wakayama, 紀伊由良駅, Kii Yura station



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