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tengu

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

tengu is a yōkai[1]. They ranks in the top 1% of y kai entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,597 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: Tiangou[3]
  • Subclass of: mythic humanoid[4], Yama-no-Kami[5]
  • Commons category: Tengu[6]
  • Unicode character: 👺[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Tengu[8]
  • Has effect: tengu kakushi[9], tengu tsubute[10], tengubi[11]

Why It Matters

tengu has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] They is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → E727-962A-ADB8-7AE0-09E2
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: E727-962A-ADB8-7AE0-09E2, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/265669|batch #265669]]"
  2. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q292051
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q292051, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has effect → tengu kakushi, tengu tsubute, tengubi
    Local thumb → —
    Instance of → yōkai
    Subclass of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007529668005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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