（天狗） / ARC浮世絵ポータルデータベース
Tengu
Tengu, holding a fan-like object and looking like a mountain ascetic, wwere unknowable otherworldly beings far removed from humans, but at times also showed glimpses of a more human side.
Kurama Tengu
Kuramayama (Mt. Kurama), a boundary land located in the north of Kyoto. Northwest of there, deep in the mountains leading to Kibune, is a magical place called Sōjō-ga-tani, which was a sacred place for mountain ascetics. Sōjōbō of Mt. Kurama is a great tengu, who is said to live in Sōjō-ga-tani, and is also known as Kurama Tengu. It is said that Minamoto no Yoshitsune was given tactics by Kurama Tengu at Kurama Temple to subdue the Heike clan.
The popularization of Tengu
The legend that Minamoto no Yoshitsune was taught the art of warfare, a kind of magic, by Kurama Tengu became established in the early modern period as the story that Kurama Tengu's subordinate Karasu Tengu trained Ushiwakamaru (Minamoto no Yoshitsune’s childhood name) in the art of warfare as his training partner. Karasu Tengu, also called Konoha Tengu, came to be comically portrayed in the role of being defeated by Yoshitsune.
Tengu in descent
Kokkei Miyako-meisho is a series of Kamigata-e (Ukiyo-e prints from the Osaka-Kyoto area) paintings of famous places, characterized by the use of humor in the paintings. This work depicts travelers who are walking toward Kuramadera Temple and Karasu Tengu who is trying to return to his home on Mt. Kurama. The tengu that the travelers are pointing at is flying in the sky with a large bottle of sake, but because of its weight, it flies at a low altitude, making it more mundane and friendlier.