tengu

type of legendary creature found in Japanese folk religion
Person y_kai Q742360
tengu
Katsushika Hokusai · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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tengu

Summary

tengu is a yōkai[1]. They ranks in the top 1% of y_kai entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,570 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • tengu's image is recorded as A woman makes a cursing ritual ceremony.jpg[3].
  • tengu's instance of is recorded as yōkai[4].
  • Tiangou is named after tengu[5].
  • tengu's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85133862[6].
  • tengu's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 16652981v[7].
  • tengu's subclass of is recorded as mythic humanoid[8].
  • tengu's subclass of is recorded as Yama-no-Kami[9].
  • tengu's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00572819[10].
  • tengu's Commons category is recorded as Tengu[11].
  • tengu's Unicode character is recorded as 👺[12].
  • tengu's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01lz5j[13].
  • tengu's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tengu[14].
  • tengu's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/tengu[15].
  • tengu's has effect is recorded as tengu kakushi[16].
  • tengu's has effect is recorded as tengu tsubute[17].
  • tengu's has effect is recorded as tengubi[18].
  • tengu's NicoNicoPedia ID is recorded as 天狗[19].
  • tengu's Golden ID is recorded as Tengu-EMZ64[20].
  • tengu's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007529668005171[21].
  • tengu's KBpedia ID is recorded as Tengu[22].
  • tengu's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 텐구[23].
  • tengu's Pixiv Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 天狗[24].
  • tengu's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 37914[25].
  • tengu's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/d5048a1e-d3e2-41b6-8ad4-391d6e32f597[26].

Why It Matters

tengu ranks in the top 1% of y_kai entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,570 views/month).[2] They has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] They is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . golden.com. Retrieved . golden.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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