Tengu Mask (LARGE) Uchide no kozuchi The most common design portrays

The most common design portrays a brown bear biting a salmon

Takeminakata is enshrined at Suwa-jinja Shrines throughout Japan

Traditional Japanese Plaster

and tears the air in the dance (Mai) The Mai is to remove misfortune and disaster from the journey ahead

Tengu Masks

Tengu Mask (LARGE) Uchide no kozuchi The most common design portraysTraditional Japanese Tengu Mask Description Tengu (, "heavenly dog") are a type of legendary creature found in Japanese folk religion and are also considered a type of Shinto god (kami) or ykai (supernatural beings). They are mountain dwellers who despise and attack vain and self involved individuals. Tengu usually appear dressed in the robes of a Buddhist monk with the small black cap favored by a clan of warrior mountain monks called the Yamabushi.