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Japanese mythology and folklore. Tengu ( / ˈtɛŋɡuː / TENG-goo; Japanese: 天狗, pronounced [teŋɡɯ], lit. 'Heavenly Dog') are a type of legendary creature found in Shinto belief. They are considered a type of yōkai (supernatural beings) or Shinto kami (gods or spirits). [1]
A pair of komainu, the "a" on the right, the "um" on the left. Komainu (狛犬), often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures, which traditionally guard the entrance or gate of the shrine, or placed in front of or within the honden (inner sanctum) of Japanese Shinto shrines.
Similar to the Black dog of English folklore. Ōmagatoki The moment of dusk, when the spirit world and the material world overlap as the night-things come out to play until dawn comes. Ōmukade A giant, human-eating centipede that lives in the mountains and finds human saliva toxic. Oni The classic Japanese demon.
In Yo-kai Watch, the Inugami is a gray and silver fox Yokai who is a recolored version of Kyubi and is called Frostail in the English dub. In the Inuyasha manga and anime, the title character is a hanyo (half-demon) born of an Inugami family. His late father, Toga the Great Dog-Demon of the West, being a legendary Inugami of supreme strength.
Bake-danuki. Bake-danuki ( 化け狸) are a kind of yōkai (supernatural beings) found in the classics and in the folklore and legends of various places in Japan, commonly associated with the Japanese raccoon dog or tanuki . Although the tanuki is a real, extant animal, the bake-danuki that appears in literature has always been depicted as a ...
The Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus), [1] also known by its Japanese name tanuki (Japanese: 狸, たぬき), [2] is a species of canid endemic to Japan. It is one of two species in the genus Nyctereutes, alongside the common raccoon dog (N. procyonoides), [3] of which it was traditionally thought to be a subspecies (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus).
The Okuri-inu (送り犬) (literally, 'escorting dog') is a kind of yōkai. There are stories of the okuri-inu from the Tōhoku region to Kyushu, but depending on the area it can be a wolf not a dog, and there are numerous differences in its behaviour. It is sometimes also called simply the 'yama-inu' ( 山犬) (wild dog, wolf) or the 'ōkami ...
This is a list of dogs from mythology, including dogs, beings who manifest themselves as dogs, beings whose anatomy includes dog parts, and so on. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological dogs .