The Toyohashi Tengu is the most successful Japanese Quidditch
team from Japan (q.v. Quidditch Through the Ages)
* Quidditch is a sport of witches and wizards that's
played on broomsticks, in the series of books and movies Harry Potter.
Toyohashi Tengu is
tengu (fantastic beast or people) in
Toyohashi,
Japan.
Tengu
![Tengu Tengu](tengu.gif)
History:
Tengu appears in "Nihonsyoki (completed in 720)" for the first time.
And it was called "Amatsukitsune" at first.
Figures:
A general tengu have a high-bridged nose and a sharp mouth, and dress
like Yamabushi (a buddhist priest practicing asceticism in the
mountains).
Dai-tengu(great tengu) has a red face and a long nose. And
Karasu-tengu(crow tengu) has a black bill.
They can fly in the sky.
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