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Tengu continue to be popular subjects in modern fiction, both in Japan and other countries. They often appear among the many characters and creatures featured in Japanese cinema, animation, comics, role-playing games, and video games. [42] The Unicode emoji character U+1F47A (ðº) represents a tengu, under the name "Japanese Goblin". [43]
Articles relating to the tengu, a type of legendary creature found in Japanese folk religion. They are considered a type of yÅkai (supernatural beings) or Shinto kami (gods). Although they take their name from a dog-like Chinese demon ( Tiangou ), the tengu were originally thought to take the forms of birds of prey , and they are traditionally ...
SÅjÅbÅ is a tengu, which are a type of nonhuman creature in Japanese folklore and mythology with supernatural characteristics and abilities. [1] Tengu are also considered well-known example of yÅkai. [25] YÅkai is a term that can describe a range of different supernatural beings.
Like SÅjÅbÅ, these tengu are daitengu, chieftains of a tengu mountain, and appear in different forms of Japanese art. Kimbrough says that in one version of the Heike monogatari, the tengu TarÅbÅ is described as the greatest tengu in Japan. [4] In the text Gempei Seisuiki, TarÅbÅ is described as the first of the great tengu. [5]
The common name "goblin shark" is a calque of its traditional Japanese name tenguzame, a tengu being a Japanese mythical creature often depicted with a long nose and red face. [5] Another name for this species is elfin shark. [2]
Tatzelwurm – (Alpine Folklore) lizard-like creature, often described as having the face of a cat, with a serpent-like body which may be slender or stubby, with four short legs or two forelegs; Tatsu – Japanese dragon; Taurokampoi – Fish-tailed bull; Tavara – Night-demon [citation needed]
A name given to the kami of water and to a wide variety of mythical and magical creatures found in water. Suiko Another name for kappa. Sukunabikona The Shinto kami of the onsen (hot springs), agriculture, healing, magic, brewing sake and knowledge. The child of either Kamimusubi or Takamimusubi, he helped Åkuninushi build the land known as ...
Handbook of Japanese mythology. ABC-CLIO (2003) Hearn, Lafcadio. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. Houghton, Mifflin and company. (1894) Joly, Henri. Legend in Japanese art: a description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folk-lore, myths, religious symbolism, illustrated in the arts of old Japan. New York: J. Lane. (1908) Monaghan ...