Tarōbō

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Tarōbō (太郎坊 Tarōbō) is the Tengu of Mt. Atago. He is said to be the personification of Sarutahiko-no-Kami.
==Appearance==
==Personality==
Tarōbō cherishes the Atago Shrine, becoming enraged that the humans had not restored it for over 26 years and decides to punish them through various means. He has a strong dislike of cats, and would blow them away without hesitation.
==History==
===Manga===
Angered that the humans have not restored the Atago Shrine since it burned 26 years ago, Tarōbō decides to punish them by having yōkai cause incidents, starting with a fire in the city of Edo caused by Wanyūdō. He continues to have yōkai cause incidents, including having Otoroshi crush several people, Kuro-Kamikiri eating girls' hair and Kamaitachi causing whirlwinds. In his most recent incident, he controls the yōkai Hone-Onna to gather souls to feed to Gasha-Dokuro, so that the giant skeleton will rampage through the city of Edo.
Tarōbō is soon confronted by Kitarō and Medama-Oyaji, as he explains why he is doing this. He complains how humans always take priority while yōkai are ignored, and if it comes to it, he will control the humans, believing that they only exist to serve yōkai. Kitarō counters him that the yōkai of Edo have always lived with the humans. Hearing this he assumes that he is an ally of the humans, but he denies it and states that yōkai can live carefree, doing little pranks and scaring humans. Regardless, Tarōbō calls forth a group of Karasu-Tengu to defeat Kitarō, whose attacks go through them.
Later when Kitarō's friends arrive he knocks Kitarō out. Neko-Musume jumps on him and starts biting his head, making him scream how he hates cats. This gives Medama-Oyaji to have Neko-Musume to call all the stray cats of Edo to attack Tarōbō. Unable to handle this, he sends the cats away with his wind. He also blows back the sand that Sunakake-Babaa threw at him. However Konaki-Jijii catches him by surprise, turning to stone to immobilize him. Kitarō wakes up and uses his Chanchanko to cover Tarōbō's face, making him concede defeat. When asked if he will stop the incidents, he agrees to stop.
Nezumi-Otoko demands answers from him, which he explains that he had Kitarō fight illusions of Karasu-Tengu that only he could see and that he controlled Hone-Onna with his psychic powers. He asks Nezumi-Otoko if he had something with the bone yōkai, which he complains about how he slept with her. Tarōbō laments that he just wanted the Atago Shrine to be restored, but is told by Medama-Oyaji that some things are beyond their power.The Battle of Mt. Atago
===The Great Yōkai War: Guardians: Side Story: Heian Hyakkitan===
Tarōbō served as one of major supporting characters in the novelization. 
==Powers and Abilities==
==Legend==
Tarōbō, like his Gegege no Kitaro counterpart, is a tengu associated with Mount Atago. He is said to be a brother of the most famous tengu, Sōjōbō from Mount Kurama. He's also presented as either a protector of or outright analogous to Atago Gongen, a deity associated with the mountain, often invoked to ward off fire in the past. Atago Gongen is in turn sometimes viewed as the reincarnation of Nichira, a Korean advisor who according to some legends aided Prince Shotoku. Like many other tengus, Tarōbō is usually portrayed as a mountain ascetic. In some artwork, he's depicted wielding a vajra, a Buddhist symbol of irresistible force.
Tarōbō himself is not regarded as analogous to Sarutahiko in real-life folklore or religion, though many experts argue that tengu imagery was largely derived from combining tales about this deity with Buddhist and Chinese folkloric creatures. 
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