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Jet_Jaguar
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Some nice pictures of tengu statues (of both types of tengu) on Mt. Takao (known as a famous dwelling place for the tengu) from friend-of-the-UY-dojo Matt Alt:

http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2 ... tting.html
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interesting and refreshing.thanks for posting.good point there with the possibillity of translation to a human face...
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Konichiwa!! Beautiful statuary! I have always liked the Tengu best of all japanese folklore. And they make GREAT adversaries for Usagi!

Abayo!! :D
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