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Tenko ((日本語:天狐)) are a type of divine beast in Japanese folklore. A fox (kitsune) that lives for 1000 years becomes a tenko. They are able to see a thousand ri ahead. They have ten tails unlike the lower-ranked existences, the yako, the kiko, and the kūko. Tenko are of the highest rank of foxes in the Edo period, and in the essays "" and "," the foxes are ranked in the order of tenko, kūko, kiko, and then yako. Also, in the Nihon Shoki, in the 9th year of Emperor Jomei (637), the great shooting star was written as 天狗 (normally read "tengu") and was given the reading of "amatsu kitsune," and from this, the essay "Zen'an Zuihitsu" put forth the theory that tenko and tengu are the same.〔 Furthermore, at the first ridge of the Fushimi Inari-taisha, a male fox by the name of is worshipped as (however, these foxes are always the divine messengers or household of Inari no Kami, not Inari no Kami himself). In Ojika island in the Nagasaki Prefecture, the tenko is a type of spirit possession, and it is said that those who are possessed by it have a divination ability that is always correct, and is thus a divine spiritual power. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tenko (fox)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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