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In the 2020 video game Genshin Impact, the character Kujou Sara is a tengu, and other tengu (as well as other youkai) play a significant role in the history of the fictional nation of Inazuma, which is in turn based on Japanese culture and mythology.
In Japanese folklore and Folklore, Sōjōbō (Japanese: 僧正坊, pronounced [soːʑoːboː]) is the mythical king and god of the tengu, legendary creatures thought to inhabit the mountains and forests of Japan. Sōjōbō is a specific type of tengu called daitengu and has the appearance of a yamabushi, a Japanese mountain hermit.
Human-faced dogs mentioned in Japanese urban legends. Jishin-namazu A giant catfish dwelling beneath the earth, near the kaname-ishi, the rock that holds down the Japanese archipelago, which causes earthquakes and tsunamis when it moves, despite being restrained by Takemikazuchi. It was blamed during the Ansei earthquake and tsunami. [citation ...
Like Sōjōbō, 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 Tarōbō is described as the greatest tengu in Japan. [4] In the text Gempei Seisuiki, Tarōbō is described as the first of the great tengu. [5]
Japanese folklore encompasses the informally learned folk traditions of Japan and the Japanese people as expressed in its oral traditions, customs, and material culture. In Japanese, the term minkan denshō (民間伝承, "transmissions among the folk") is used to describe folklore. The academic study of folklore is known as minzokugaku ...
The Tengu of Japanese folklore, monstrous humanoids who dwell in the mountains and forests and possess the wings, claws, and sometimes beak of a bird. [35] Thanatos and his brother Hypnos were often portrayed as winged. [36] Thoth was portrayed as having the head and sometimes the body of an Ibis. [37]
Articles relating to the tengu, a type of legendary creature found in Japanese folk religion. They are considered a type of yōkai (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 ...
Tamamo-no-Mae (玉藻前, 玉藻の前, also 玉藻御前) is a legendary figure in Japanese mythology. One of the stories explaining the legend comes from Muromachi period (1336 to 1573) genre fiction called otogizōshi. In the otogizōshi Tamamo-no-Mae was a courtesan under the Japanese Emperor Konoe (who reigned from 1142 through 1155).