TENGU - Tengu Legends 06 Ehime

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Tengu 天狗と伝説 - 愛媛県 Legends about Tengu in Ehime

. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
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Tengu mask from Dogo Onsen Hot Spring, Matsuyama


source : blog.livedoor.jp/manatees1


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. Tengu no matsu 天狗の松 "Tengu Pine" - Legends Introduction .

If someone tries to cut a tree town, he will be flipped in the air or falls under the tree.
At night such a tree sometimes makes a loud, painful sound, or falls down all by itself
天狗の倒し木 tree cut down by a Tengu.
If villagers check in the morning, sometimes there is nothing special to be seen.

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. ashi nashi tengu 足なし天狗 Tengu without feet .
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Tengu 天狗 at Mount Ishizuchisan 石槌山
Tengu as kaze no kamisama 風の神様 God of the Wind.


. shinka 神火と伝説 Legends about "divine fire" .
and the Tengu from 篠山 Mount Sasayama.




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大三島町 Omishima

Once upon a time, all the fields were shared for use and every 25 years re-distributed (narashi ナラシ). A man who did not like his field being shared asked for a new NARASHI distribution.
The local Tengu did not like this, took this man and threw him on a boulder, the Yokomakura no Iwa 横枕の岩.

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Tengu-iwa 天狗岩 Tengu Iwa Rock
Once a man who was hunting for mushrooms in the mountain forest, saw a woman sitting on a boulder cooling off. Suddenly a Tengu appeared and threw her down into the valley. She lost all her hair and became a nun. The rock is since called Tengu Iwa.
The Tengu seems to sit on a special pine tree to observe this rock. This pine tree was not very high and grew almost only vertically.

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At the border between 宮浦 Miyaura and 里浦 Satoura there is a Tengu no matsu 天狗の松 Tengu Pine.
In former times a Tengu used to live there and deceived people. Sometimes a golden Sake cup was seen rolling at the roots of the tree.
The village elder was once deceived and made to walk around all night along the river.

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




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中山町 Nakayama

A retainer of 松山城主蒲生家 the Gamo clan of the lord of Matsuyama castle named 松本忠四郎 Matsumoto Chushiro went up to mount 久万山 Mount Kumayama and blew his flute for the Tengu to enjoy. As a reward he got a letter box which he should never open.
But the curious lord opened it anyway. He found a sheet of paper with the note
"The Gamo clan will be extinguished!"
And thus it happened.

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砥部町 Tobe

Tengu no asobiba 天狗の遊び場 place where the Tengu plays
Usually a pine tree which does not grow any more.
Once a man cut down such an old tree, but the Tengu got very angry and the whole family of the man suffered great misfortune.
Sometimes people can plant another pine tree (お断りの杉) to appease the anger of a Tengu.

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Chiyoko to kizamareta iwa チヨコと刻まれた岩 rock with the inscription "Chiyoko"
Tengudani 天狗谷 the Tengu valley
The other side of the Tengudany 天狗谷 Tengu Valley has a steep cliff and a rock where 虚空蔵菩薩 Kokuzo Bosatsu is venerated. It has the inscription CHIYOKO.
Legend tells of the woman who made a wish to the this Bosatsu and carved her name into the cliff. She climbed up the steep cliff, with a baby strapped to her back. When the child called Chiyoko begun to cry, the two of them fell down to their death into the Tengu valley, while the mother kept shouting the name of her baby
Chiyoko, Chiyoko, Chiyoko.


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Tengudani Sue, Kakamigahara, Gifu　岐阜県各務原市須衛町
- - - With remains of Sue pottery 須恵器の窯跡
1 kiln from the Heian period 平安時代後期の灰釉陶器窯跡
7 kilns from the Nara period 奈良時代にかけての須恵器窯跡
There are also two Kofun mounds 古墳時代終末の古墳


- - - - - Ruins of the 天狗谷窯跡　Tengudani Kiln in Saga
The Tengudani Kiln is said to be one of Japan's first kilns where porcelain was fired.

This kiln was used during the early stage of Arita's porcelain production.
There is a close connection between this kiln and the father of Arita porcelain 李参平 Ri Sanpei. According to the chronicles of his descendants, the Kanagae family, "after having discovered a kaolin deposit at 泉山 Mt. Izumiyama, he constructed the first kiln at 白川天狗谷 Shirakawa Tengudani, for it was easy to access both water and fire wood, and as he taught painting and workmanship techniques to his disciples, the art of porcelain making gradually became a thriving business". The kiln is a climbing kiln constructed on a mountain slope. It is said to be between 3m and 8m in width and more than 50m in length.


Shirakawa, Arita-cho, Nishimatsuura-gun, Saga
- reference source : arita.jp.e.ew.hp.transer.com... -



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Ehime 宇和町 Uwa cho

At 大判山 Mount Obanzan there lives a Tengu.
People are not allowed to go to the mountain on the first, 15th and 28 of each month.
Mount Obanzan is 795 m high.



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久万高原町 Kuma Kogen, Kumakogen, Kuma Highland

. shibatengu, shiba tengu 柴天狗 / シバテン Shiba Tengu. Shibaten .
Almost like a Kappa　河童 Yokai monster.

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There is a rock named nusutto ishi 盗っ人石 (盗人石 / 盗人岩) "thief's rock".
Once a thief stole the money offerings from the shrine at 石鎚山 Mount Ishizuchisan. But he was caught by the Tengu from the mountain, who threw him high in the sky. The stone is where the thief landed.

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Once a saotome 早乙女 rice-planting maiden was singing a song, bending toward the direction of 久保田の天狗嶽 Mount Tengudake at Kubota.
The Tengu came close and wanted to imitate the song, but could not sing as beautiful as the maiden.
The Tengu got angry and since then during the rice-planting season it always rains.




. Tengu 石槌山法起坊 - Ishizuchizan Hoki-Bo .
and Tengu-dake 天狗岳 Mount Tengudake 1982ｍ




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内子町 Uchiko

The Tengu who live in the deep mountains are almost like sennin 仙人 immortals.
If a wicked or defiled person comes to the mountain, they swing him around and throw him out.




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hi no tama 火の玉 ball of fire
At 三津浜 Mitsuhama on the Inland Sea there is a lonely place where many subtropical trees and plants grow below a steep cliff.
In this thicket there lived a Tengu who sometimes came out to do some mischief. Once on a spring night the fishermen had a great catch, but then suddenly there came hi no tama 火の玉 a ball of fire and all the fish in their baskets suddenly disappeared. When they realized their loss, they looked up and saw the ball of fire swirling around the top of the cliff.

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onryoo 怨霊 vengeful spirit
from the temple
. Miyukiji 御幸寺 Miyuki-Ji .
A temple where the Tengu live !

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tokobashira 床柱 alcove post
Once a man went 奥道後 deep in the forest of Dogo and cut a tree to make an alcove post for his home.
But the man developed a high fever and died shortly after.
A diviner told the family that this was a divine tree and the man had been thrown around by a Tengu as punishment.




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愛南町 Ainan

At the 老樟 old camphor tree of the 蕨岡 Warabioka family there was a divine light for seven days and seven nights. They called it 熊の権現の神火 the divine light of Kumano Gongen and venerated it at
Mount 篠山 Sasayama (1065 m ).
Years later the Tengu who lived at Sasayama came to live in this tree and played his tricks on the members of the family. So one day the head of the home shot at him and the Tengu lost one of his wings. To get it back he had to promise never to play tricks around here any more and to protect the family from theft and misfortune. And to this day, the Tengu protects the Warabioka family.
The home was later even called 戸たてず庄屋 "Home with no doors", because no thief would dare to come here.




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伯方町 Hakata village

There are various places where Tengu have been seen:
Tengu matsu 天狗松 Tengu pine
Tengu zashiki 天狗座敷 Tengu living room,
. Tengu no miya 天狗の宮 Palace of the Tengu .


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小田町 Oda

The Tengu who live in the deep mountains are almost like sennin 仙人 immortals.
If a wicked or defiled person comes to the mountain, they swing him around and throw him out.




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重信町 Shigenobu

There is a Tengu-iwa 天狗岩 Tengu boulderk in the village.

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To built a hut in the mountains, a villager added some stones for a base. He spent the night there.
That night the roof begun to shake, and also the next night.
Well, one stone he had taken was by the Tengu to take a rest, so probably the Tengu had come to scare him and sit on the roof.





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丹原　Tanbara 　

. Karasu Tengu 烏天狗 at Ishizuchisan 石槌山 .

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. Kooryuuji 興隆寺 Koryu-Ji .
愛媛県周桑郡丹原町古田

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Once a priest who liked the ladies very much went missing.
He was eventually found, almost bones only, hanging is a large cherry tree down in the river valley.
Since that event a light could be seen above the cherry tree, said to be the Tengu who had taken care and punished the sensual priest.


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

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TENGU - Tengu Legends Fukushima

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. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
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Tengu Legends from Fukushima
福島県の天狗伝説　

Let us start with a sip of the local Daitengu Sake !


大天狗酒造株式会社 -福島県本宮市 Motomiya town - - - Dai Tengu

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Some legends about Tengu, the Mountain Goblin, are told in all of Fukushima, some are related to a special district or village.
Many legends have been collected by 柳田国男 Yanagita Kunio
in a collection named
妖怪名彙 / Yōkai Dangi 妖怪談義 Yokai Dangi



. Yanagita Kunio 柳田國男 .
Kunio Yanagita, Yanagida　柳田国男 (1875 - 1962)

Yanagita Kunio, "Tengu no hanashi" (1909)

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Tengu no ashiato 天狗の足跡 footprints of a Tengu - see below

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Tengudaoshi, Tengu-daoshi 天狗だおし / 天狗倒し
"Tengu knocking down trees"
- - - 空木倒し sora kigaeshi
- - - 天狗の木倒し Tengu no kidaoshi
The sound of cutting down a tree with a saw or ax is heard at night, but next morning nothing is to be seen.
This refers to strange noises in a lonely forest.
Also in 相馬郡 Soma district 飯舘村 Iidate and 田村郡 Tamura district
This phenomenon is also known in other parts of Japan.

- - - Tengusama 天狗様 Tengu Sama
On the 8th and 9th day in the second and 12th month of the old lunar calendar people were not allowed to work in the mountains. That would certainly bring them bad luck.
Someone who tried to go to the mountain on the 9th day of the second lunar month got hit by a boulder, fell down a crevice and died.


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In the very remote mountains of Fukushima, where people rarely come,
Tengu throw down trees.
Another Yokai monster creature living there is
オンボノヤス Onbonyasu / オボノヤス Obonyasu.
He can blow fog and make the region unsafe. People easily loose their way in his fog.
Maybe 尾のある妖怪 a Yokai with a Tail.
- reference source : wikipedia -


福島県田村地方の山 The Tamura Mountains, where Obonyaku lives


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福島市 Fukushima city

- - - Yama no Kamisama 山の神様 Deity of the Mountain
Every year on the first of January, February 2 and October 17, the Deity of the Mountain comes down to visit. He is most probably a male Tengu. On these days people involved in forest work come together in the main family home, eat rice cakes and drink Sake. On these days it is not allowed to go to the forest to work.

. Yamanokami and Tengu legends .

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東白川郡 Higashi Shirakawa district 古殿町 Furudono

Hime no Gozen Yama 姫の御前山 /姫御前山
at "the Mountain of the Princess" there lives a Tengu.
He frightens people with loud noises. Once a woman went to the mountain to collect kuri 栗 sweet chestnuts, but was frightened away.
Tengu like the nara no ki ならの木 Nara oak tree and sometimes the branches look like the beard of a Tengu.

. nara 楢 / ならの木　Japanese oak
Quercus serrata / Quercus crispula .


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東白川郡 Higashi Shirakawa district 塙町 Hanawa

- - - Tengu no ashiato 天狗の足跡 footprints of a Tengu
They say the footprints of a Tengu are still visible here.

- And at 古殿町 Furudono Town, 鎌倉岳 Mount Kamakuradake



The legend tells of 猿丸 Waka Poet Sarumaru.
Around 608, the poet Sarumaru went hunting in the 葛野 Kazurano region. He followed a 白鹿 white deer for a while when he became tired, sat down and fell asleep at Mount Kamakuradake.
A Tengu appeared in his dream, standing on a boulder: "The white deer is the messenger of the Deity!" When Sarumaru woke up, he saw 天狗の足跡 the footprint of the Tengu on the boulder.

. The Poet Sarumaru Dayu 猿丸大夫 .

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In the early Meiji period, some pilgrims wanted to visit Kobugahara.
There was a wicked one among them. When they stayed at an inn in Furudono, he went to have a bath, but he was taken away, including the bath tub, by a Tengu.

. Kobugahara 古峯ヶ原 / 古峰原 / コブガハラ Kobugahara . - Gunma
and the Tengu Hayatoboo 隼人坊 Hayato-Bo, Hayatobo

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飯坂町 Iizakamachi

- - - kami kakushi 神隠し kidnapped by the gods
At 七つ森の峠 Nanatsumori Toge pass on the way to Miyagi there lived a Tengu who kidnapped people when they angered him. To appease him and be allowed to go back, they had to practise austerities for one weak.
Once a man did not believe in this kind of "nonsense" and went to the mountain for work, carrying some rice provisions in his backpack. But - he did not come back in due time. When the villagers went to look for him, they found him dead on a branch more than 6 meters above ground, still carrying his backpack with the rice.


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石川郡 Ishikawa district 平田村 Hirata village

A forest worker took his lunchbox to the forest and hung it on a tree branch, while doing his work. At lunchtime, he wanted to eat, but the box was empty.
A Tengu must have had eaten his lunch - for sure.

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いわき市　Iwaki city

The Tengu lives at 団子山 Mount Dangoyama.
Once a man with a twisted neck was healed by this Tengu. Since the man was a painter, he painted the Tengu to show his gratitude.

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. Karasu Tengu 烏天狗 at 川中子の愛宕神社 Atago Shrine of Kawanakago .


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いわき郡　Iwaki district 石城郡 いわきのこおり Iwaki nokoori
田人村 Tabitomura

- - - Tengu no warabuchi-ishi 天狗の藁ブチ石
This is the name of a boulder at the Northern side of the Shrine.

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- - - - - Takegarayama 竹柄山 / 竹がら山 Mount Takegarayama
Takegarayama Yazawa, Sukagawa-shi, Fukushima
On the highest place lives a Tengu. When the weather changes to the worst, this Tengu beats a loud drum to warn the people.

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喜多方市 Kitakata town

- - - Tengu no sumootori ba 天狗の相撲とり場 Tengu and Sumo wrestling
At the place where the Tengu used to practise sumo wrestling, a Tengu once had his long nose come off.
It turned into the flower of 水バショウ Mizubasho, skunk cabbage.


福島市土湯 「びっき沼の水芭蕉」-
Tsuchiyu Hot Spring : Mizubasho from Bikkurinuma swamp


鼻かけ天狗 Tengu who lost his nose
Mukashibanashi story 山梨県 from Yamanashi
- reference source : blog.goo.ne.jp/inehapo/e -

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南会津郡 Minami Aizu district

- - - Tengu-doori 天狗通り Tengu passing
It happens during daytime in the mountain forest. First there is the sound of pyuuun, then the sound of wings flapping.
This is also heard by farmers who try fishing in mountain rivers in the evening.
Another version of Tengu-daoshi.

- - - kami kakushi 神隠し kidnapped by the gods
A villager had mysteriously disappeared. He had gone to the mountain forest of the village in the evening, but in the morning something like 子馬 a pony appeared and seemed to invite a relative to follow him. When he followed the pony, he came to the forest of the neighbouring village. There a huge Tengu appeared and said:
"He is not allowed to be here, take him back to his own village!"

- - - Tengusama 天狗様 Tengu Sama
Once a man climbed on the tree stump near the sanctuary of Tengu sama and called out:
天狗天狗さらわばさらえ Tengu Tengu, if you want to kidnapp me, come on !
On the way home he felt like being pulled backwards and when he turned around, a 鎌 sickle had fallen down behind him on the road. When he came back home, the sickle disappeared.
A few days later he found the sickle high in a tree in the wood. This was the trick of a Tengu.

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A man from Inamura village 伊南村の宮澤 went fishing at a river near 黒谷入, when he saw a strange shadow. Observing the water surface he saw a long red nose and a red face. This must have been a Tengu.

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- - - 朝日村 Asahi village 丸山岳 Mount Maruyamadake
Tengu no Hanabatake 天狗のお花畑
Flower Garden of the Tengu

This mountain is the dwelling place of Tengu since olden times. It has a large plain on its top, where many mountain flowers blossom.
The locals call it the Flower Garden of the Tengu.

- - - Hachiroozaemon 八郎左衛門
The Honest, Pious Hachirozaemon
Hachirozaemon had a large swelling on the cheek To get healed he had to dance with a Tengu, who then took away the lumpy swelling.
Another man who could not see with one eye tried the same. But he was a bad, wicked person and thus he did not get healed but instead even got the lump of Hachirozaemon on his cheek too.

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- - - Tengu tsubute-ishi 天狗礫石 Tengu throwing gravel stones
At night there is a sound of stones hitting the wooden rain shutters. They say a Tengu is trying to take an aim.

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- Odegusama, O-Degu Sama オデグ様
"The honorable huge one", 男の神様 a Mountain Deity
Once a woman at the other side of the river had a competition with him, throwing stones. The stones war called Tengu Ishi 天狗石 Tengu stones. They have fallen down along the mountain forest of O-Degu Sama.


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南会津郡 Minami Aizu district 大宮村 Omiyamura village

Below the 天狗岩 Tenguiwa boulder is a 天狗堂 Tengu Hall.
Way up the mountain path is a small sanctuary. There are many 玉石 cobblestones around. Villagers say a Tengu from the neighbouring mountain had thrown them here during a fight with the Tengu of this mountain.


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大沼郡 Onuma district 金山町 Kaneyama

Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 Tengu Boulder
In former times at the Tengu-Iwa 天狗岩 Tengu Boulder, people could hear the sound of Tengu cutting wood.

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Once a forest worker stayed over night in the small hut, when suddenly a strong wind blew and he heard the sound of trees falling down.
But next morning there was not a single tree fallen down.
In another night he heard the sound of stones falling on the boulder near by.
In another night he had the feeling the whole hut was carried into the air.
He promised never to say anything bad about the local Tengu and then went home safely.


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白川郡 Shirakawa district 表郷村 Omotego village

At Mount Tenguyama 天狗山 Tengu-Yama,
there lives the Tengu. He lives in the high regions and has a very long nose.
Shirakawa's Tengu Mountain - a beautiful scenery with large rice fields at the feet of the mountain.


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相馬郡 Soma district

- Tengu no Mori 天狗の森 Forest of the Tengu
At night a mysterious blue flame wanders through this forest and people who see it never come back home.
This is the deed of a Tengu.


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相馬郡 Soma district 飯舘村 Iidate

- - - Above のべがみ森 Nobegamimori Forest
there lives a Tengu.
Some people have been shocked and surprized by him.

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耶麻郡 Yama district

kasakake matsu 笠かけ松 /
笠掛けの松 pine to hang a straw hat
On the top of 護法山 Mount Gohozan there is the "Pine to hang a straw hat!.
Once upon a time, a Tengu had kidnapped villagers and hung them on the branches, sometimes he just stole their robes and straw hats and hung them in the tree.
In former times there were two trees,
the hitokake matsu 人かけ松 "pine to hang humans" and the
kasakake no matsu 笠掛けの松 pine to hang a straw hat for the robes.
Now the Hitokake withered away and only the Kasakake is still there.


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. Fukushima Masanori 福島正則 (1561 - 1624) .

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Tengu no ashiato 天狗の足跡 footprints of a Tengu

see above 東白川郡 Higashi Shirakawa district.


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茨城県 Ibaraki 新治郡 Niihari district 八郷町 Yasato machi

When the owner of the land tried to move ths stone, he got injured and gave up.


愛宕山は天狗 From the Tengu of Mount Atagoyama


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香川県 Kagawa 高松市 Takamatsu city

This is a tale about the geta 下駄 wooden sandals of a Tengu, who is venerated in this sanctuary.
After bringing the sandals as offerings, the villagers found them full of mud next morning and his footprints in the rocks.
The Tengu must have taken a walk this night !


飯野山 Iinoyama (讃岐富士 Sanuki Fuji ）


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長野県 Nagano 駒ヶ根市 Komagane city

On a flat round stone there were strange imprints, like from wooden sandals.
This must have been the footprints of a Tengu.


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和歌山県 Wakayama 西牟婁郡 Nishimuro district 日置川町 Hikigwacho village

In the floor of the home of 徳蔵 Tokuzo there are imprints of the feet of a Tengu.
They can not be washed away with water. It seems the Tengu comes often to take Tokuzo with him for somefun.


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山梨県 Yamanashi 南巨摩郡 Minamikoma district 早川町 Hayakawa village

The Forest 奈良田に天狗森 Tengu no Mori in Narada Hot Spring
In 1890 someone sold the trees of this wood. When the new owner 大衛門 Taemon begun felling the trees, there occurred a fire the same night and the temple 外良寺 Gairyo-Ji and 13 homes burned down.
The villagers knew this was the curse of the Tengu. Soon they planted new trees and built a sanctuary for the Tengu.
Taemon soon lost his job and killed himself.
On the rock in the forest there are imprints of geta 下駄 wooden sandals, the footprints of the local Tengu.

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Tengu Sumoo 天狗 相撲 Tengu and Sumo wrestling

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SENNIN - sennin poetry

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Sennin and poetry 仙人




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『古狂歌　ご笑納ください』
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All are Edo kyouka but the last, a Kamigata kyouka.

仙人も天狗も雲と見たがへて梢を踏むなみ芳野の花　
飯盛 Tenmei
Long-lived sages and long-nosed goblins over Yoshino take care
not to step on the tree-tops, as blossoms not clouds are there!



真っ白なはぎにみとれし仙人の涎なるらん花のべの露　
橘打枝 E1790
By white clover/calves besot, the cloud-borne saint became a fool that is to say,
the dew upon that flow'ry field is his drool!



鶴に乗り又風に乗るあやふさハ命知らずと云わむ仙人
石面亭岩礼E1812
Riding cranes or flying on nothing but the wind sounds risky –
mountain saints who'd live forever seem like dare-devils to me.



年ふとも歯は損ねじな仙人は露や霧を喰い物にして　
茂喬K1815
Mountain mystics may be old, but all their teeth are there --
I guess that comes from eating just mist, haze, fog and air.


I suppose "ascetics" and "wizards" might be added to the translations as "sages" "saints" amd "mystics" for「仙人」。

Thanks to Robin D. Gill !


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群仙図屏風　folding screen with images of the Sennin
曾我蕭白 Soga Shohaku （1730 - 1781）

屏風絵の仙人と座す山の寺
byoobu-e no sennin to zasu yama no tera

I sit with the Immortals
on a folding screen
in a mountain temple

松永兼子 Matsunaga Kaneko

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仙人の鬚洗ひ居る清水哉
sennin no hige arai-iru shimizu kana

this clear water
where Sennin wash
their beard . . .

寺田寅彦 Terada Torahiko (1878 - 1935)


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伊丹三樹彦 Itami Mikihito (1920 - )
花仙人 Hana Sennin - Poetry Collection 1991　
現代俳句18人集 - Modern Haiku by 18 Poets

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SENNIN - Kame Sennin Turtle

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Kame Sennin 亀仙人 "Turtle Immortal"
Kooan - 黄安仙人 / 黄安 Koan, Kame Sennin

A Sennin from China of the 前漢 Western Han Dynasty (156 - 187) .
He rode on a huge turtle of ３尺 3 feet. This turtle would show its head above the water once every 3000 years. Koan had seen this at least 5 times.
Once he had an audience with the Han emperor and told him about this turtle, but when the emperor died, Koan also drifted into the unknown.


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黄安仙人図 亀乗仙人
狩野常信 Kano Tsunenobu (1636 - 1713)


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飾り瓦 roof tile from 春日神社 Kasuga Jinja
愛知県高浜市春日町

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carving at the shrine Kitano Tenmangu, Kyoto
京都市上京区　北野天満宮拝殿


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亀仙人 Kame Sennin - "The Turtle Immortal"
Kokeshi by Usaburo 卯三郎こけし

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Kame Sennin 亀仙人 the modern "Turtle Immortal"
Muten Roshi 武天老師 Master Roshi

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Kame Sennin, the perverted martial arts master. He lives on Kame Island in the Kame House.



Like other Sennin, he lives alone except for his acquaintance, Turtle (海亀, Umigame), a slow yet honest talking sea turtle that comedically represents his Sennin familiar.
Kame Sennin
is very much a cross cultural creation. He teaches the boys martial arts in a Zen Buddhist style of self comprehension amidst physical suffering. Meanwhile, he dresses like a Daoist Taiji master when fighting or teaching. He knows Taiji Chuan and Chinese boxing styles, and helps strengthen his disciples' ability to use Ki (Qi). On top of that, he emulates Jackie Chan as Jackie Chun, a popular Chinese martial arts film star. He's a mix of Buddhist, Daoist, Chinese and Japanese.
Kame Sennin is an immortal.
It's never explained exactly how he became immortal, but he is over 300 years old by the time Goku meets him as a child, and he never ages during the progression of the story.
..... Just like Kume Sennin, Kame Sennin has a magic cloud, which he calls the Kinto'un (筋斗雲), and which shares similar Kanji to the one in Journey to the West, where it's called the "Somersault Cloud."
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sennin　仙人と伝説 Legends about Immortals

The recluse from the political scene has always been an ideal of the Chinese and later Japanese intellectuals.
Some mountain recluses were seen as Tengu, others as Sennin.
shinsen 神仙 Sennin of the Shinto tradition
bosatsu 菩薩 is an honorable title given to Buddhist Immortals

. sennin 仙人 immortals, mountain hermits.
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. China - The Eight Immortals 八仙 Pa Hsien .

. sennin 天狗と仙人伝説 Legends about Tengu and Immortals .



Chōkarō Sennin 張果老仙人　Chokaro Sennin releasing the horse from the gourd


Sennin are immortals living in the mountains - some kind of hermits.
They are capable of a lot of magic tricks like flying on an animal in the air.
Sennin may appear mortals in their dreams. There are about 500 of them.
Like in life, only a few of the sennin are frequently mentioned and depicted.
The rest belongs to the "silent majority".
By the way, the Japanese mythology knows not only male but female sennin as well.
source : artelino.com/articles

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. senninike, sennin-ike 仙人池 Sennin-Ike, "Pond of the Immortal" .

. senningatake 仙人岳 Mount Senningatake . - Yamagata
- 仙人ヶ岳 Tochigi. ... *

. sennin no iwa 仙人の岩 "Rock of the Immortal" . - Kanagawa
- 仙人岩 Sennin-Iwa. Kagoshima ... *

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. Bikoo sennin 鼻高仙人 Biko Sennin "with a long nose".
Ono no Tobito 小野富人 - around 672

. En no Gyooja, En no Gyōja 役行者 En no Gyoja / 役小角 En no Ozuno .

. Gama Sennin 蝦蟇仙人 "Toad Immortal" - 劉海 Liu Hai .
- and Tekkai Sennin - 李鉄拐 Li Tieguai.

. Gyooki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu (668 - 749) .

. Hitachibo Kaison Sennin 常陸坊海尊仙人 .
Retainer of 源の義経　Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - 1189) - 清悦 Seietsu

. Hoodoo Sennin 法道仙人 Hodo Sennin .
法起菩薩 Hoki Bosatsu - Saint Tokudo 徳道上人 is an incarnation.
- Karahachi Sennin 空鉢仙人 "Mountain hermit with the empty begging bowl"

. Ikkaku Sennin 一角仙人 "One-horned Immortal" .

. Kame Sennin 亀仙人 "Turtle Immortal" / Muten Roshi 武天老師 Master Roshi .

. Kikujidoo, kiku jidoo 菊慈童 Kikujido, "Chrysanthemum Boy" .

. Kinkoo Sennin 琴高仙人 Kinko Sennin - Qin Gao .

. Kobo Daishi Kukai 弘法大師　空海 (774 - 835) .

. Kume no Sennin 久米の仙人 Kume Sennin 久米仙人 .
founder of the temple Kumedera 久米寺 Kume-Dera, Nara

. Rishuu sennin 利修仙人 Risshu Sennin.
founder of the temple 鳳来寺 Horai-Ji, Aichi

. toita sennin 戸板仙人 Sennin of the Wooden Door .
Tokushima - 大麻比古神社 Oasahiko Shrine

. Torakichi 虎吉 sennin no moji 仙人の文字 letters of Torakichi .

Fukurokuju 福禄寿 and 寿老人 Jurojin are considered Sennin
. Seven Gods of Good Luck 七福神 Shichifukujin　 .

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. sennin to netsuke 仙人と根付 Netsuke of Immortals .


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Li Tieguai, Cao Guojiu, Lan Caihe, Zhang Guolao, Han Xiangzi, He Xiangu, Lü Dongbin and Zhongli Quan (Zhongli Han)
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Basuu, Basū 婆薮仙 Basu the Immortal Basu
Also read Basuusen. Basu, the Immortal, sennin 仙人.



An Indian sage, whose Sanskrit name, Vasu, may be an alternative name for one of the Seven Rishi or seers. Basusen appears as an Indian ascetic who, with *Kichijoten 吉祥天, flanks *Senju Kannon 千手観音 in the *Taizoukai mandara 胎蔵界曼荼羅. Thus he often appears, along with Kichijouten (although sometimes replaced by Kudokuten 功徳天, a form of Kichijouten), in paintings of Senju Kannon. Basusen is also one of the *nijuuhachi bushuu 二十八部衆 (the twenty-eight attendants) of Senju Kannon. He usually appears either as an ascetic or as a fully dressed old man, and carries a text, usually a palm-leaf book. The later is a symbol of the Prajnaparamita texts, HANNYAKYOU 般若経 (the sutra of The Perfection of Wisdom), which is central to the attainment of enlightenment and therefore to all forms of Buddhism. Basusen is a protector of these texts and, as such, appears in paintings such as the images of *juuroku zenshin 十六善神, along with other protectors.
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日本の仙人 ― 仙人の研究 (2)
知切光歳
日本古来の神々と神仙道、山岳信仰の役行者や浦島子、中古の仏教的な仙人の盛行、中世の仙人受難時代、天狗と仙人、近世の仙人伝まで、個別的な伝記を中心に日本の仙人について詳説。仙人画多数。

仙人の研究 (1)
インド・中国・日本の仙人の世界を、その発祥から説き起こし、仙人とは何か、修行と神通力、仙薬・神薬・霊薬、そして日本の仙草までを、膨大な資料と該博な知識により詳論。仙人画多数収載。

列仙伝・神仙伝
時間を超えて永遠の若さと生命を保ちつつ無限の自由を求める仙人は、人類の根源的夢想の体現者である。彼らのまことに自由でユニークな姿を活写する、中国仙人伝の双璧。

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日本の仙人37人 The 37 Immortals of Japan



本朝神仙記伝 / 本朝神仙伝 Honcho Shinsenden - Lives of Japanese immortals
Honcho shinsen den - Lives of Japanese Spirit Immortals / Biography of Japanese immortals
By 大江匡房 Oe no Masafusa

日本の仙人37人を解説した『本朝神仙記伝』（平安時代後期の漢学者大江匡房（おおえのまさふさ）撰録）には、
「是全く孫右衛門が、熟眠の場なるを知らず、草を刈て驚かせし故に、斯る変を示したるものならんと、人々語り伝えしとなん。今も時として姿を顕はすことあり。村人恐れて、孫右衛門天狗といふとぞ」とあります。
孫右衛門 Magoemon - - see below, Yamanashi -

Michinori Honcho Shinsenden - Accounts of Japanese Immortals
For a broad discussion of these Japanese immortals, see Hori, "On the Concept of Hijiri (Holy-man)."


sennin : immortal; transcendent; genie; mage; djinn; sage; hermit", mountain saint
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天狗・仙人妖怪ばなし　by とよた　時 Toyota Toki (toki.moo)
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Kinoko Sennin (きのこ仙人), meaning Mushroom Hermit or Mushroom Mystic,
from Super Mario
. He tells Mario that the only way to save the Mushroom Kingdom and Princess Peach is to find the three legendary items:
a mushroom, a flower, and a star.



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O-Daishi sama お大師様
弘法大師空海　Kobo Daishi Kukai got a priest's fly whisk (hossu 払子) from a Sennnin who told him:
"With this whisk you can get rid of any disturbing monster and will be protected from anything!"
Once a young woman and her brother were trying to hang out with him and pestered him, eventually trying to shoot him to death. But they could not hit him at all.

飛騨の昔話から - from the Tales of Hida

. Kobo Daishi and 仙人岳 Mount Senningatake .
Yamagata 山形県

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iruisha 異類者 different beings
They are not Sennin, but strange people who have come to live deep in the mountains. They lost in a battle during wars many hundred years ago and fled to the mountain forests, became hunters or lumberjacks. They are some kind of somabito 杣人 forest workers.

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yamabito no tsutaeshi kusuri 仙びとの伝えし薬
仙人の伝えた薬で、非常に耳がよくなるというものがあった。難聴の者がその薬を飲んだところ、そこら中の言葉から、鳥の声、虫の音まで、遠近もらさず聞こえるようになり、耳ほどうるさいものはないと、かえって難聴だった頃を恋しがったという。



亀仙人 Kame Sennin - "The Turtle Immortal"
Kokeshi by Usaburo 卯三郎こけし



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大沼郡 Onuma district 金山町 Kaneyama

shiragamizu 白髪水 "white hair water" flood

During the great flooding in 1785 (天明5年の大洪水) most of the region of Aizu was under water.
People saw a Sennin with shiragami 白髪 white hair riding on a big tree in the flood downriver.
Hence the name of this flood.




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沼田市 Numata 戸鹿野町 Togano machi

roosoku to sennin 蝋燭と仙人 the Sennin and the candles
Once a family put a pole in the garden to hang a lantern with a candle. The smoke of the candle welled up all the way to ハッカイサン Mount Hakkaisan, where a Sennin lived.
The Sennin breathed all the smoke and used it to prolong his live.



蝋燭能「一角仙人」Noh performance in candle light - Ikkaku Sennin

Ikkaku Sennin 一角仙人 "One-horned Immortal"
a Noh play by Konparu Zenchiku (金春禅竹, 1405-1471).
Ikkaku was born in 波羅奈(はらな)国 Harana, India. His mother was a 鹿 deer, so he had one horn on his head.




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. O-Shirasama, oshirasama おしらさま、オシラサマ "White Deity" .
legends of 飛行というと天狗 a flying Tengu or the sennin 仙人 helping humans

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Jizoo 地蔵 Jizo
A Sennin lived as a recluse in a temple, he liked to tell stories of the mountains in the region.
But statue of Jizo betrayed the Sennin and told the others about his real identity, making the nose of the Sennin all red.
So the Sennin turned the nose of the Jizo statue around.


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西磐井郡 Nishi-Iwai district 平泉町 Hiraizumi

鬼三太仙人 / オニサンタセンニン Oni Santa Sennin ，清悦 Seietsu
At the river 衣川 Kinugawa there lived a strange person. He had a shaven head and sharp looking eyes. He never said his name, but he was strong and very learned and could heal all kinds of illnesses. He never took any thank-you money.
He drank 枸杞茶 a special health tea made from kuko 枸杞 Lycium chinense.
He only had one laquered box to carry his belongings.
Once Lord 伊達政宗 Date Masamune ordered him to open the box.
Inside were 三軸三翰三張 three scrolls, three scriptures and three papers - and 観音像 one statue of Kannon Bosatsu. On the statue was an inscription that his name was Oni Santa, a name given to him by the priest Kurama Tookooboo 鞍馬東光坊 Toko-Bo from Mount Kurama, Kyoto.

鬼三太 Kisanta
A warrior at the end of the Heian period, beginning of Kamakura period.
Kisanta was a retainer of 源義経 Minamoto Yoshitsune. He was also called 御馬屋の鬼三太 Go-Umaya no Kisanta.
In 1185, on orders of 源頼朝 Minamoto no Yoritomo the priest 土佐房昌俊 Tosabo Shoshun (1141 - 1185) came to Kyoto to attack the living quarters of Yoshitsune, but Kisanto prevented it.
Sometimes his name is spelled 喜三太.
Kisanta died at the battle of Kinugawa.

Later he became a character in Kabuki plays about Yoshitsune.


鬼三太 尾上菊五郎 Kisanta played by Onoe Kikugoro
豊原国周 Toyohara Kunichika

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大船渡市 Ofunato 猪川町 Ikawa

奥州の仙人伝説 Legends about the Sennin from Oshu
At the temple 龍福山長谷寺 Hasedera there lived an old priest, 阿光坊澄水法印 Akobo Sunzu Hoin.
In 1597 on the 21st day of the 9th lunar month, he suddenly asked his disciples to put water in a tub and place it in the garden. The then sprinkled the water with his fingers.
When they asked him why he did this, he said there was a fire at Mount Koyasan and he wanted to help extinguish the fire.
At that hour, there had indeed been a fire at Mount Koyasan.

. Koya San in Wakayama 高野山　和歌山県 .





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. Japanese Immortals On Satsuma Pottery .
- 薩摩焼 Satsumayaki




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senkyoo 仙境 Senkyo, fairyland
Once upon a time, the フウマ一族 Fuma clan liven in a place called Senkyo, just above 舟原 Funahara.
This was the place where the Sennin lived.





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南丹市 Nantan

konzoo 金像 golden Buddha statue
Around 808, the hunter 小野胤世 Ono went to see a Sennin who was talking about 法華経 the Hokekyo sutra, but he could not see anybody. There was something shining and when he shot an arrow at it, there was a golden Buddha statue of about 10 cm. The statue was so heavy he could not move it.
Reporting it to the lord 藤原定房 Fujiware no Sadafusa, they built a temple for the statue.
When there was a fire, it would take off and fly into the sky.

瑞光山玉泉寺 Zuikozan Gyokusen-Ji
- reference source : tanbarakuichi.sakura.ne.jp/nantan... -





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石巻市 Ishinomaki 鮎川浜 Ayukawahama

Senninzawa no hebi 仙人沢の蛇 the serpent from Sennin Swamp
At the 金華山祭 Kinkasan Festival in May the 姉神 Elder Sister Deity from 網地島 Ajishima island turns into a huge serpent 大蛇 (竜蛇 "dragon serpent") and spits out the tide all night, swimming over to the Kinkasan island to help the 妹神 Younger Sister Deity from Kinkasan. Some villagers have even seen her swim. But those who see her will die.
She is also called the serpent from Sennin swamp.

. Kinkasan 金華山 (Kinkazan) .
a small mountainous island at the tip of the Oshika Peninsula, not far from Sendai.


仙人沢・仙人大滝 The Great Sennin Waterfall

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刈田郡 Katta district 七ヶ宿町 Shichikashuku

Iwagamiyama 磐神山 イワガミヤマ / ?磐山 - ?仙磐山）
They say there lived a Sennin. It is South of 二井宿峠 Niijuku toge pass. Down the valley is 仙人沢 Senninzawa.
The Sennin used to walk there with his dog, but rarely showed himself to the villagers. The dog eventually turned into a rock called
inu-ishi 犬石 "Dog Stone".


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Anpanman finger doll - baikin sennin "Germ Sennin"
アンパンマン 指人形 バイキン仙人
Baikin-Sennin is a Germ from the Anime TV Series Anpanman.
An old germ hermit who lives in a house in the mountains, he acts like a mentor to Baikinman and friends. He is very tough on Baikinman, punishing him with work, or hitting him on the head if he fails. He is also tough on Horrorman, but gets along better with him than Baikinman. He has a soft spot for Dokinchan, and spoils her. He can fly on a magic cloud, or with a UFO that looks like a convertable car. He keeps an array of mystical and magical relics at his home.
- Baikinman
A germ from Baikin Planet (Germ Planet), and Anpanman's sworn enemy and rival. Baikinman was born from an egg that fell to Earth the same day Anpanman was born. ...
- source : awgosh.com/anpanmanchara...-




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佐久市 Saku

Mount Senningatake 仙人ヶ嶽 - 637 m
The chi no ike 血の池 "blood pond" of Senningatake is about 150 m to the North of 閼伽流山 Mount Akarusan.
The pond got its name from a Hotogogisu, who sang at the pond and spit out blood so the water got all red.
If a priest performs rain rituals there, it will definitely rain soon. They even did it in the Showa period.

. hototogisu ホトトギス, 時鳥 little cuckoo .
Cuculus poliocephalis.
The inside of the mouth of this cuckoo is so red that it looks like blood when the bird is singing.

. amagoi 雨乞い rain rituals .

There are other mountains named Senningatake 仙人ヶ嶽 in other regions.

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下条村 Shimojo

ushigatsume no ushi-ishi 牛ヶ爪の牛石 stone with bull hoof imprints
Once a wicked villager did not tell the proper road to a blind Sennin. He wandered around and finally died with his bull beside him.
His resentment against the wicked villager turned into the imprints of the bull in the stone and now people in this area learned the lesson and never deceive people.





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吉野町 Yoshino

shiragami no sennin 白髪の仙人 Sennin with white hair.
Mother had been ill and to pray for her recovery the son went to the center of the 黒住教 Kurosumi-Kyo religion. On the way an old man with a white beard, like a Sennin, stopped him saying "Don't go, don't go. Nobody can help you. "
On that night mother had died.
Maybe the Sennin wanted to remind him that some things are impossible to ask for.





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

akaushi ni notta sennin 赤牛に乗った仙人 the Sennin who rode on a red bull

The farmer 作蔵 Sakuzo had a lot of cows and went to his field every day to cut fodder for them. In his village was a waterfall and people said:
At the Narutaki 鳴滝 waterfall there lives an Immortal riding a red bull and his bull comes to eat the grass around the waterfall. So farmers are not allowed to cut it, otherwise they will be cursed by the Immortal.
One day as Sakuzo was out cutting grass, he realized that one bundle was missing. When he looked up he found himself standing near the waterfall. "Oh well, just one bundle will not do much harm" he thought and begun cutting the grass. Suddenly above the waterfall the Immortal on his red bull appeared:
"Don't ever tell anybody you saw me here!" the Immortal shouted at him.
Sakuzo begun to tremble with fear and run home. He had almost lost his mind. His wife asked: "What happened to you?"
He wanted to tell her he had seen the Immortal but he was too scared and just kept repeating "It's nothing, nothing happened..."
Within a short while he and his wife disappeared from the village and the house was left there to rot.



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. The Immortal from 菊川村 Kikugawa .
and Muken no Kane 無間の鐘 "Unlimited Bell", "Soundless Bell", "the Bell of Muken"




............................................................................... Yamanashi 山梨県

. 新左衛門 Shinzaemon from Mount Kayagatake .
The sennin 仙人 Immortal from 金が岳 Mount Kanagatake (1,764 m) named 新左衛門 Shinzaemon
and the Tengu from 茅ヶ岳 Mount Kayagatake (1,703 m) named 江草孫右衛門 Magoemon from Egusa ...


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


not to mix sennin 仙人 with somabito 杣人 forest workers.


. sennin 天狗と仙人伝説 Legends about Tengu and Immortals .

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仙人と呼ばれた男 ― 画家 - 熊谷守一の生涯 The life of Kumagai Morikazu (1880 - 1977)
田村祥蔵 Tamura Shozo


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仙人入門 - Introducing Sennin
聖龍

甲賀流忍術の師の許に弟子入りし、兄弟子である「忍者犬」と共に過ごしたユーモラスな少年時代。中国武術の基礎を学んだ青年時代。やがて、中国、深山幽谷の地に入り、「仙人」の許で厳しい修行を積み、さらには日本人として唯一、内家拳とよばれる中国武術を極めることになる。歩んできた奇想天外な半生と、今尚続く修行の道程を綴る。


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葛城仙人 Katsuragi Sennin
まんが日本昔ばなし 1465


むかし、葛城山（かつらぎさん）の山奥深くに小鹿（おじか）という男がいた。小鹿は数年前、諸国を巡り歩いている時、行き倒れて死にかけてるところを、ここ葛城山のふもと和泉の里の人々に助けられたのだった。小鹿はそれから葛城山に籠り、仙人になろうとして厳しい修行を積んだ。しかし神通自在を得て、空を飛ぶ仙人になることはなかなか出来るものではなかった。...
- reference source : nihon.syoukoukai.com/modules/stories... -



Sennindoo　仙人堂 Sennin　Do Hall
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Yamabushi are Japanese mountain ascetic hermits.

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