Sometimes at night in Shizuoka prefecture, small flocks of bird-like creatures with two-meter wingspans
can be seen swooping over the Ooi river, catching fish in their talons. These are konoha-tengu,
low-ranking tengu that have not yet accumulated much supernatural power, usually depicted in
their primal and mostly avian form.
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1. Mizuki vol. 2 2003, p. 70