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inoshishi and Tengu 猪 - 天狗 と伝説 Legends about wild boar and Tengu

. Tengu 烏天狗騎猪 Karasu Tengu riding on a wild boar .




Tengu on boar 猪に乗った天狗
a drawing by 古閑 Kokan, 1771
- source : db.nichibun.ac.jp/ja... -





Crow Tengu Riding Boar (Karasu Tengu 烏天狗騎猪)
Late Edo Period Painting by Kaihō Yūtoku, Sairin-ji Temple 西林寺, Kyoto.

In paintings and woodblock prints, the boar often appears as the steed of the tengu or of their king, Sōjōbō 僧正坊. Sōjōbō is closely linked to famed warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune 源義経 (1159-1189), one of Japan's most revered samurai. In a well-known legend, Yoshitsune lived among the tengu in his youth and received training in the arts of war from Sōjōbō himself.
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The Buddhist martial deity Marishiten is also often shown riding atop a boar.

Another possible interpretation of the above image relates to the following Zen story:
“One day a hunter was in the mountains when he happened to see a snake killing a bird. Suddenly a boar appeared and began to devour the snake. The hunter thought he should kill the boar, but changed his mind because he did not want to be a link in such a chain, and cause his own death by the next predator to come along. On his way home he heard a voice call to him from the top of a tree. It was the voice of a tengu. It told him how lucky he was, for had he killed the boar, the tengu would have killed him.
The man subsequently moved into a cave and never killed another animal.”
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. Yama no Kami 山の神 God of the Mountain
and his messenger, the inoshishi 猪 / 猪 wild boar .
Yamanokami is sometimes seen as a Tengu.


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............................................................................... Fukushima 福島県

Inawashiroko 猪苗代湖 Lake Inawashiro
There are some Tengu living close by.



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Origin of the name “Inawashiro”
An old legend tells the story of the deity Iwahashi Myojin cultivating rice with the help of a wild boar.
The combination of the characters for “boar” (猪 i) and “bed for rice seedlings” (苗代 nawashiro),
hence “Inawashiro” (猪苗代).
An alternative theory finds the word to have its origin in the language of the Ainu people, but in any case it points to a deep connection with the cultivation of rice.
Present day Inawashiro owes its form to a large-scale eruption of the Mt. Bandai and Mt. Nekoma volcanoes that occurred between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago. There are also indications that the area around Lake Inawashiro was already inhabited by indigenous peoples 12,000 years ago. Especially in the southeast base area of the mountain facing the lake, ruins from the Jomon and Paleolithic/Pre-Jomon periods are still visible. The ruins that have been found in the bottom of the lake in the Nagahama, Kanisawahama and Sanjogata areas have been dated back to the Jomon and Kofun periods.
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Shrine Iwahashi Jinja 磐椅神社
いははしのかみのやしろ Ihahashi no kami no yashiro



- Deities in residence
大山衹神(おおやまずみのかみ) Oyamazumi no Kami
埴山姫命（はにやまひめのみこと）Haniyama Hime no Mikoto
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木花佐久夜毘賣命（このはなさくやびめのみこと） Konohanasakuya Hime no Mikoto
磐長姫命（いわながひめのみこと）Iwanaga Hime no mikoto
品陀和氣命（ほんだわけのみこと）Hondawake no Mikoto
息長足姫命（おきながたらしひめのみこと）Okinagatarashi Hime no Mikoto

The Shrine is famous for the 大鹿桜 Oshika-Zakura elk cherry tree, one of the five famous cherry trees in Aizu.
A kind of サトザクラ Satozakura.

Nishimine, Inawashiro, Yama District, Fukushima
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Lake Inawashiro (猪苗代湖 Inawashiro-ko) is the fourth-largest lake in Japan, located in central Fukushima Prefecture, south of Mount Bandai. It is also known as the 'Heavenly Mirror Lake' (天鏡湖 Tenkyōko). The lake is located within the borders of Bandai-Asahi National Park. It is a surface area of 104 square kilometres (40 sq mi), circumference of 63 kilometres (39 mi), depth of 94 metres (308 ft) and is located at an altitude of 514 metres (1,686 ft).
In winter swans migrate to the beaches of the lake and stay there until spring.
Lake Inawashiro
was formed some 30-40,000 years ago when a tectonic depression was dammed by a major eruption and pyroclastic flow from Mount Bandai. The water is acidic with a pH value of approximately 5.0, and has a high degree of transparency. The water level was considerably less during the Jōmon period as numerous artifacts and ceramic fragments have been found offshore.
The lake water
is an important source for irrigation in the Aizu region of western Fukushima Prefecture. An irrigation canal was completed during the Edo period and another, the Asaka Canal, in 1882. A third canal completed in 1915 supplies the city of Kōriyama with drinking and industrial water. The water also supplies a number of hydroelectric power plants. The lake is also an important tourist and leisure attraction in Fukushima Prefecture.
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- Karasu Tengu from 愛宕神社 Atago Jinja shrine, Kyoto

. . Atago Gongen and Atago Shrines 愛宕 / 阿多古. .
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愛宕山奥の院 Atagoyama Oku no In

Tarobo from Atago was in fact a person called Shishido Saburoemon 宍戸三郎右衛門, who was a strong believer in the Atago deity. He is also responsible for making the 猪 wild boar a messenger of the deity.



............................................................................... Mie 三重県
猪田村 Idamura, Ida village, "field of the Wild Boar"


Shrine Ida Jinja 猪田神社 in 伊賀 Iga
三重県伊賀市猪田 5139 / Ida, Iga city, Mie

. Kotengu 小天狗 minor Tengu, crow-like goblin .
The Shrine Ida Jinja (also known as 猪田村住吉神社 Sumiyoshi Jinja in Idamura), has been built by a Kotengu.
Until WWII, there were also ema votive tablets of the Kotengu.
In former times, the Kotengu from nearby mountains would also come for the festival, make merry and perform a lion dance.
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In Iga there was also a Kotengu called 小天狗清蔵 Seizo. He helped to protect the local shrines and temples from the fury of the army of Oda Nobunaga.
He also lived in the temple Shoin-Ji.


1658 Yamade, Iga, Mie
At the temple 勝因寺 Shoin-Ji an old Kotengu used to live in hjding. He is said to have made 勝因寺梵鐘 the large temple bell, which is one of the oldest in Mie prefecture.
- reference : bunka.pref.mie.lg.jp/rekishi/kenshi... -




............................................................................... Nagano 長野県
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東筑摩郡 Higashi-Chikuma district 四賀村 Shigamura village

Wolves, monkeys and wild boars are the messengers of Yamanokami.
Yamanokami is quite wild and the Tengu maybe an incarnation.



............................................................................... Shimane 島根県
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高尻 Takashiri

Tengu no Kami 天狗の神 Tengu Deity
Far away in Takashiri lived a farmer named 幾蔵 Ikuzo.
One night, the Tengu Deity appeared to him, placed a golden halberd and a golden Gohei wand in the ground and told him, if he made offerings of お神酒 ritual rice wine and お灯明 light, there would be no more damage of wild boars in his fields.
Ikuzo did as he was told and had no more damage. Other people came to him and he could cure them of their illness. He soon became a rich man.
Envious villagers tried to take away the halberd and Gohei from Ikuzo, but they had no good luck with it.




. gohei 御幣 ritual wand .





............................................................................... Shizuoka 静岡県
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庵原郡 Ihara district 両河内村 Ryogochimura village

Kechiyama ケチ山
If someone shoots a wild boar in the area of けち山のうる山（うるちこ山？ urokochiyama） Kechiyama,
there is the sound of someone singing a woodcutter song and the person will be lifted away into the sky.
They say this is the doing of the local Tengu.


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- reference : nichibun yokai database 妖怪データベース -

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猪・鹿・狸
早川孝太郎 Hayakawa Kotaro
九十貫を超える巨猪を撃った狩人の話。Strange tales about wild boars, deer and Tanuki badgers.
奥三河・横山で見聞・古老から聴き溜めた猪・鹿・狸の逸話が縦横に語られる。


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