Tenzurushi (天吊るし Tenzurushi, Ceiling Hanging) is a humanoid yōkai.
Appearance[]
Tenzurushi resembles a pale, naked, young boy, with glowing skin, crescent-shaped eyes, and a toothy grin.
History[]
Video Games[]
- Tenzurushi appears in GeGeGe no Kitarō: Yōkai Yokochō as a C-Rank yōkai and the local boss yōkai representing the Yamanashi Prefecture.
Legend[]
Illustration of Tenzurushi by Shigeru Mizuki.
Tenzurushi is a yōkai from Kitakoma District (present-day Hokuto City), Yamanashi Prefecture. It is recorded in the Kitakoma Education Associations' "Kōhi densetsu-shū" (口碑伝説集, Collection of Oral Legends).
Every night at the house of the Shindo family, it would come down the ceiling to scare people. Eventually, the family asked a Shinto priest to visit their house, and after he came and prayed inside, the yōkai was never seen again.
Shigeru Mizuki speculates the Tenzurushi might be a type of Tenjō-Name.