Tengu

Yep

... a Tengu, right?

Mm-hmm.

So there's something, there's something to it.

Yeah, let's do it.

So the Ents were very kind to have us interview a very special prisoner.

They are a Tengus, which is, if you don't know, a large black bird-shaped humanoid.

So it's like a bird creature, but cannot fly.

And their name is Rettiger Hagroll.

Time is money.

You can't waste your time wiping blood.

Are you respected by the other Tengus people?

And they had the Naga, which is a great crested serpent.

They had the Garuda, which is half man and half bird, similar to the Japanese Tengus.

And they had the Singha, which is a mythical lion that you're supposed to live in the jungle.

The nearest actual lions are in India, nowhere near Thailand.

The two main actors have a lot of chemistry, and it's really good.

He sends us something, some kind of Tengu, which is dropping boulders on him, boot to the head.

Hyakkimaru kick.

She flies through the air herself.

The Tangus, or The Elves with Long Noses, by William Elliot Griffiths.

Curious creatures are the Tengus, with the head of a hawk and the body of a man.

They have very hairy hands or paws with two fingers, and feet with two toes.

They are hatched out of eggs, and have wings and feathers until full grown.

Then their wings molt, and their stumps are concealed behind their dress, which is like that of a man.

They walk, when grown up, on clogs a foot high, which are like stilts, as they have but one support instead of two, like the sort of which men wear.

The Tengus strut about easily on these, without stumbling.

the dai tangu or master is a solemn-faced scolding individual with a very proud expression and a nose about eight finger-breadths long when he goes abroad his retainers march before him for fear he might break his nose against something he wears a long grey beard down to his girdle and moustaches to his chin in his left hand he carries a large fan made of seven wide feathers this is the sign of his rank he has a mouth but he rarely opens it he is very wise and rules over the tengus in japan the karasu or crow tengu is a black fellow with a long beak in the place where his nose and mouth ought to be he looks as if some one had squeezed out the lower part of his face and pulled his nose down so as to make a beak like a crow's he is the dai tengu's lictor he carries the axe of authority over his left shoulder to chop bad people's heads off and his right fist is the master's book of wisdom and a roll of authority even these two highest in authority in tengu land are servants of the great lord kanpira the long-haired patron of sailors and mountaineers the greatest of the dai tengu lived in kurama mountain and taught this lad while in a pupil in the monastery would slip out in the evening when the priests thought him asleep and come to the king of the tengus who instructed him in the military arts in cunning magic and wisdom every night the boy would spread the roll of wisdom before him and sit at the table of the hoary-headed tengu and learn the strange letters in which tengu wisdom is written while the long-nosed servant tengus propped on their stilt clogs looked on the boy was not afraid but quickly learned the knowledge which birds beasts and fishes have how to understand their language and to fly swim and leap like them when a tengu stumbles and falls down on his nose it takes a long while to heal and if he breaks it the doctor puts it in splints like a broken arm until it straights out and heals up again some of the amusements in tengu land are very curious a pair of young tengus will fence with their noses as if they were foils their faces are well protected by masks for if one tengu should poke his nose into the other's eye he might put it out and a blind tengu could not walk about because he would be knocking his nose against everything two old tangoes with noses nearly two feet long sometimes try the strength of their face handles one fellow has his beak straight up in the air like a supporting post while the other sits a yard off with his elastic nose stretched out like a tight rope and tied with twine at the top of the other one's nose on this tight-nosed rope a little tango boy with a tiny pug only two inches long dances a jig he holds an umbrella in his hand now dancing and now standing upon one foot the tengu daddy whose nose serves as a tent pole waves his fan and sings a song keeping time to the dance there is another tengu who sometimes quarrels with his wife and when angry boxes her ears with his nose a lady tengu who is inclined to be literary and sentimental writes poetry when the mood seizes her she ties the pen to her nose dips it in the ink and writes a poem on the wall a tango painter makes a long-handled brush to whitewash the ceiling by strapping it to his nose sometimes the little tangos get fighting and then the feathers fly as they tear each other with the little claws which have talons on them shaped like chickens but which when fully grown look like hands all the big tangos are fond of trying the strength of their noses and how far they can bend them up and down without breaking they have two favorite games in which they sometimes give exhibitions the player has long strings of iron cash that is one hundred of the little iron coins with a square hole in the center several of these he slides on a rope like buttons on a string or counters on a wire then he lifts them off with the tip of his nose sometimes his nose bends so much under the weight that the coins slip off whichever tengu can pick off the greater number of strings without letting any slip wins the game and is called ohana the king of noses another bounces hoops and poles on his nose and throws balls through the hoops or he poises a saucer of water on the tip of his nose without spilling a drop another fellow hangs a bell from the ceiling then with the handkerchief tied loosely round his head he pulls his nose back like a snapping turtle's beak and then he suddenly lets go his nose then strikes the bell and rings it it hurts very much but he does not mind it the tengus have one great fault they love liquor too much they often get drunk they buy great casks of rice wine sling them round their necks and drink out of long cups shaped like their faces using the nose for a handle a drunken tengu makes a funny sight as he staggers about with his big wings drooping and flapping around him and the feathers trailing in the mud and his long nose limp pendulous and groggy when the master of tengus wishes to see the flowers which means to go on a picnic he punishes his drunken servant by swinging the box of eatables over the fellow's red nose putting the end over his shoulders he compels the sot to come along it sobers the fellow for the weight on his nose and the pulling on it hurts dreadfully and often makes him squeal o yama a mountain near tokyo is said to be full of these long-nosed elves but many other mountains are inhabited by them for they like lonely places away from men dancers often put masks like the tengu's face and dance a curious dance which they call the tengu's quadrille the tengus are very proud fellows and think themselves above human beings they are afraid of brave men however they never dare to hurt them they scare children especially bad boys they watch a boy telling lies and catch him then the tengus pull out his tongue by the roots and run away with it When a Tengu walks, he folds his arms, throws back his head till his nose is far up in the air, and struts around as if he were a Daimyo.

Oh, this is about to get real.

So, you know, you got Genji and the Tengu, you know, his inner monster really fighting for, like, who's going to take lead now that the cat is out of the bag, right? Who's going to lead the charge? Because they both want vengeance, but...

The power struggle provides a great bit of levity for what is overall a pretty violent and badass issue.

Nice.

The Tangus, or The Elves with Long Noses, by William Elliot Griffiths.

Curious creatures are the Tengus, with the head of a hawk and the body of a man.

they have very hairy hands or paws with two fingers and feet with two toes they are hatched out of eggs and have wings and feathers until full grown then their wings molt and their stumps are concealed behind their dress which is like that of a man they walk when grown up on clogs a foot high which are like stilts as they have but one support instead of two like the sort of which men wear the tengus strut about easily on these without stumbling the di tangu or master is a solemn-faced scolding individual with a very proud expression and a nose about eight finger-breadths long when he goes abroad his retainers march before him for fear he might break his nose against something he wears a long grey beard down to his girdle and moustaches to his chin in his left hand he carries a large fan made of seven wide feathers this is the sign of his rank He has a mouth, but he rarely opens it.

He is very wise and rules over the tengus in Japan.

they have two favorite games in which they sometimes give exhibitions the player has long strings of iron cash that is one hundred of the little iron coins with a square hole in the center several of these he slides on a rope like buttons on a string or counters on a wire then he lifts them off with the tip of his nose sometimes his nose bends so much under the weight that the coins slip off whichever tengu can pick off the greater number of strings without letting any slip wins the game and is called ohana the king of noses another balances hoops and poles on his nose and throws balls through the hoops or he poises a saucer of water on the tip of his nose without spilling a drop another fellow hangs a bell from the ceiling then with the handkerchief tied loosely round his head he pulls his nose back like a snapping turtle's beak and then he suddenly lets go his nose then strikes the bell and rings it it hurts very much but he does not mind it the tengus have one great fault they love liquor too much they often get drunk they buy great casks of rice wine sling them round their necks and drink out of long cups shaped like their faces using the nose for a handle a drunken tengu makes a funny sight as he staggers about with his big wings drooping and flapping around him and the feathers trailing in the mud and his long nose limp pendulous and groggy when the master of tengus wishes to see the flowers which means to go on a picnic he punishes his drunken servant by swinging the box of eatables over the fellow's red nose putting the end over his shoulders he compels the sot to come along it sobers the fellow for the weight on his nose and the pulling on it hurts dreadfully and often makes him squeal o yama a mountain near tokyo is said to be full of these long-nosed elves but many other mountains are inhabited by them for they like lonely places away from men dancers often put masks like the tengu's face and dance a curious dance which they call the tengu's quadrille the tengus are very proud fellows and think themselves above human beings they are afraid of brave men however they never dare to hurt them they scare children especially bad boys they watch a boy telling lies and catch him then the tengus pull out his tongue by the roots and run away with it When a Tengu walks, he folds his arms, throws back his head till his nose is far up in the air, and struts around as if he were a Daimyo.

When a man becomes vain and carries his nose too high, the people say, he has become a Tengu.

End of The Tengus or the Elves with Long Noses In Myths and Legends Around the World Collection 17

THE LOVE OF THE SNOW-WHITE FOX BY FRANK RINDER In Izumo, the province of the gods, are many foxes.

Some said he was a changeling, no better than a beast.

Many believed he'd been raised by the Tengu The demons of the forest who had taught him their dark powers and trained him in their lethal arts of killing

So now, instead of the bastard son of a samurai, Kai was rewritten as a foundling from the haunted Tengu forest, written off as a demon half-breed.

Oishi is actually introduced trying to drown young Kai at the start of the film.

But Kai was taken in by Lord Asano and raised alongside Mika, despite the obvious 15-year age gap between Keanu Reeves and Mika's actress, Kou Shibasaki.

Kai's journey is instead largely about gaining the approval of the samurai, rendering Mika even less important to the plot.

But despite his prominence in the film, Kai still has no specific part to play in the final attack on Kira's fortress besides rescuing Mika, and all of this new focus on him distracts even more from Oishi, who is still undeniably the film's protagonist.

Kai's new mysterious backstory also meant that rather than the Ainu Mount Fuji volcanic forge sequence, the ronin now got magical swords from the Tengu forest, where Kai had to confront the Tengu monks, who were bird-like creatures who raised him and taught him his supernatural fighting abilities, and all of these changes culminated in the Witch.