Izuna Daigongen (飯縄大権現)
The principal image of Takaosan Yakuo-in, attended by tengu.
Izuna Daigongen is the deity enshrined as the principal image of Takaosan Yakuo-in, installed there around 1375 when the monk Shungen restored the temple. The figure belongs to the world of Shugendo, the tradition of mountain asceticism, in which the boundary between Buddhist and kami worship is deliberately porous. The temple describes the tengu as its attendants, holding the power to remove calamity, dispel misfortune and bring good fortune, which is why tengu, rather than the deity itself, are what most visitors to Mount Takao actually see.
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