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kokkuri; divination technique similar to table turning and planchette
Kurama tengu; tengu of Kyoto's Mount Kurama, said to have taught the art of war to Minamoto no Yoshitsune
when the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off; when the nimble rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked
From the idea that such sounds came from trees being felled by tengu
large sound of unknown source heard on a forested mountain
person who resorts to petty tricks; person of small caliber who is only capable of petty tricks
fly agaric (species of poisonous mushroom, Amanita muscaria)
From 狡兎死して良狗烹らる
When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off
tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimeninae spp., esp. the common tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene albiventer)
witches' broom (plant disease); hexenbesen
Idiomatic expression
to cry wine and sell vinegar; to do deceptive advertisement; to put up a sheep's head and sell dog meat
Idiomatic expression
attempting to be something you are not; drawing a tiger that ends up looking like a dog
parlour game in which three people each write one line of a 5-7-5 poem (without seeing the other lines; often producing humorous results); tengu haiku
