Yamabushi (山伏, one who prostrates oneself on the mountain) are Japanese mountain ascetic hermits. They are generally part of the syncretic shugendō religion...
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a specific type of tengu called daitengu and has the appearance of a yamabushi, a Japanese mountain hermit. Daitengu have a primarily human form with...
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lapidation (death by stoning). It has traditionally been associated with the yamabushi, hermetic practitioners of the Shugendō religion, because they often used...
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Tokin (headwear) (section Yamabushi and tengu)
(頭襟、兜巾、頭巾、ときん) is a small, black, box-shaped hat traditional to Japan, which yamabushi (mountain ascetic hermits) of shugendō wear on their foreheads. The tokin...
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through steep mountain ranges. Practitioners are called Shugenja (修験者) or Yamabushi (山伏, literally "Mountain Prostrator"). The mountains where shugendo is...
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Tsuruoka (section Yamabushi and Shugendô)
perceived as a form of syncretism of Shintô 神道, religion and Buddhism. The Yamabushi 山伏, literally : "the men who sleep in the Mountain" (men who practice...
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Shugendō, and they are usually depicted in the garb of its followers, the yamabushi. The tengu in art appears in a variety of shapes. It usually falls somewhere...
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this particular weapon are associated with the sōhei (warrior monks) or yamabushi, who also adapt other agricultural tools as weapons, although samurai...
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worship as Animism is connected with mountain worship. Later, Shugenjas and Yamabushis, who were descended from Esoteric Buddhism and Taoism, went deep into...
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involving monks and children from Kurama temple. On being joined by a rough Yamabushi - an ascetic mountain priest - the party leaves in protest, with the exception...
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