TENGU and DARUMA

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Tengu and Daruma 天狗とだるま


Tengu from Mount Takao

Tengu (天狗, "heavenly dogs")
are a class of supernatural creatures found in Japanese folklore, art, theater, and literature. They are one of the best known yōkai (monster-spirits) and are sometimes worshipped as Shinto kami (revered spirits or 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 depicted with both human and avian characteristics.
The earliest tengu were pictured with beaks (karasu tengu　烏天狗）, but this feature has often been humanized as an unnaturally long nose, which today is practically the tengu's defining characteristic in the popular imagination.

Buddhism long held that the tengu were disruptive demons and harbingers of war. Their image gradually softened, however, into one of protective, if still dangerous, spirits of the mountains and forests. Tengu are associated with the ascetic practice known as Shugendō, and they are usually depicted in the distinctive garb of its followers, the yamabushi.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !


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坂出の天狗まつり Tengu Festival in Sakaide

The festival is centered on Saganbo Tengu, a long-nosed goblin from Mount Shiramine near Sakaide that appears in many ancient Japanese folktales. The main events such as the Tengu Walk, Tengu Bazaar and Tengu Kite-Flying Contest focus on this theme. The Tengu Marathons (15km and 5km) are particularly popular, and they attract participants from all over the nation because of the scenic view of the Seto Inland Sea and Seto Ohashi Bridge. Bowls of udon (hot wheat noodles) with ten no gu (ten kinds of ingredients) are available at every festival site.

Date: 2nd weekend in February
Place: Saganbo, Oyabu-cho, Sakaide City; Hayashida
www.pref.kagawa.jp/

白峰山の相模坊（通称「さがん坊」）は，「保元物語」をはじめとして「源平盛衰記」，「太平記」，「雨月物語」など，多くの史書文献にもしばしば登場し，日本の八大天狗の一狗として古来から輝かしい歴史の１頁を飾っています。　こうした由来のある「相模坊」から生まれたのが，「大天狗しらみね爺や」と「小天狗さがんぼうや」の両天狗です。



天狗うどん作り　How to make Tengu Udon Noodles
...www.city.sakaide.kagawa.jp/


Even a Tengu Marathon Walk on high wooden clogs.



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Tengu 天狗の面　＜＞　Long-Nosed Goblins
At Mt. Takao
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/395

. Hiwatari matsuri 高尾山の火渡り祭
fire-walking ritual at Mt. Takao 　
with tengu and tengu waffles 天狗焼き Tengu Yaki



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Here is another group with Tengu and O-Kame (Okame)



Read a bit more about the three characters here and come back:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/gabigreve2000/archives/16785623.html

By now, you might wonder what this strange bedfellows do together.
Well, Okame represents the female genitals, Tengu of course the male ones and our Daruma, in this context, the golden balls (kintama). As a symbol for fertility of the human and the earth, these three are often found in souvenirs from rural areas and hot springs.


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A Book about Little Daruma and his Friend, Little Tengu
This was so popular it is now a TV series about Little Daruma and his friends.

Little Daruma & Little Tengu


By Satoshi Kako, Peter Howlett Hardcover

だるまちゃんとてんぐちゃん
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Darumasan-Japan/message/366


There is a whole Daruma-chan Family.
だるまちゃんのお部屋
http://darumad.hp.infoseek.co.jp/darumachan.html

Daruma-chan and Tengu-chan

Look at this delightful picture story:
http://darumad.hp.infoseek.co.jp/tengu.html


More books about Daruma and his little friends.
だるまちゃんと○○○ちゃん
だるまちゃんとかみなりちゃん Kaminari-chan, the Thunder Boy
だるまちゃんととらのこちゃん Tora, the little Tiger
だるまちゃんとだいこくちゃん Daikoku, the God of Good Luck
加古 里子 Kako Satoshi
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/home/oshima/Daruma.htm

Daruma chan and Tora chan だるまちゃんととらのこちゃん
Daruma and Little Tiger
. Tora トラ　- 虎　- 寅　Tiger Toys .


Ehon, E-Hon 絵本 Exhibition in New York, January 2007


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.. .. .. .. .. The Real Tengu Daruma



Read my Story about Haguro San.
http://darumapilgrim.blogspot.com/2005/02/haguro-san.html

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All you ever want to know about Tengu
with great illustrations
By Mark Schumacher
Tengu are mountain and forest goblins with both Shinto and Buddhist attributes. Their supernatural powers include shape-shifting into human or animal forms, the ability to speak to humans without moving their mouth, the magic of moving instantly from place to place without using their wings, and the sorcery to appear uninvited in the dreams of the living.
http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/tengu.shtml


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A wooden doll set of a Tengu and 5 Daruma dolls
こけしの天狗にだるまさん




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Daruma with Geta and Box like a Tengu



Side and Back


Photos from my friend Ishino.


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White Daruma and large Tengu mask


© PHOTO : nanalove701


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Tengu and his wooden clogs, the GETA, this is another story
Geta Sandals 下駄

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Tengu -The Shamanic and Esoteric Origins
of the Japanese Martial Arts
Roald Knutsen

This fully illustrated volume, including an eight-page colour-plate section, is the first in-depth study in English to examine the warrior and shamanic characteristics and significance of tengu in the martial art culture (bugei) of Muromachi Japan (1336-1573).
According to Roald Knutsen,
who is widely known for his writings on the samurai tradition, prompting his life-long study of tengu – the part-human, part-animal creatures – was the early discovery that the tengu of the Muromachi period were interacting with the deadly serious bugei masters teaching the arts of war. … read moreHere were beings who did not conform to the comic, goblin-like creatures of common folklore and were not the creations of the Buddhist priests intent on demonizing that which they did not understand and could not control.
source : www.brill.nl/tengu

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Konpira pilgrims carrying a tengu mask on their rucksack wooden box (oizuri)

. Konpira pilgrims 金比羅参り .


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kigo for late spring

. tengu no goohan 天狗の強飯（てんぐのごうはん）
large rice portion of the tengu goblin



another name for the ceremony
Nikko Gohanshiki (Nikkoo Goohan-Shiki 日光強飯式)


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. Kashoozan no tengu men 迦葉山の天狗面
Tengu mask from Tengu Mountain Kashozan
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sanshoo tengu 山椒天狗
tengu from wood of the mountain pepper


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***** . Haiku with NOSE (hana　鼻) .


Mukai Tengu 向い天狗 Tengu facing each other
Fuji Tengu 富士天狗（富士太郎）Tengu from Mount Fuji
and many more
. Folk Toys with a Tengu .


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