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Visual depiction of Tengu

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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster

Tengu

Japanese mountain spirit


a red-faced long-nosed being in monk's robes with great wings, teaching sword fighting to young warriors in the mountain forests

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
trickster

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.