oni

Big fat ugly Japanese ogre with horns, fangs, and an odd penchant for wearing tiger skins.

Not to be confused with waifish anime babes inexplicably dressed like oni.

Know what an oni looks like?

YOUR MOM

by tengu shoes January 07, 2005

rice cracker

Adorably derogatory pun for whiteys who like Asian crap too much.

Man I just bought a Balinese garuda mask, a Hokusai poster and a dozen maneki neko off eBay. I'm such a rice cracker.

by tengu shoes November 08, 2004

you can't fight the moonlight

Phrase lifted from some song. It is now an allusion to the futility of trying to claim copyright on generic, pointless ideas, particularly within internet fandoms. Has something to do with purple dogs, swans with dogs shoved up their asses, and deviantart.com. Maybe. We can't say for sure.

"Holy shit I came up with bat-winged transvestite raver Anubis stop drawing him"
"You can't fight the moonlight, baby."

by tengu shoes November 08, 2004

tengu

Mythical bird-man goblins from the mountains of Japan. They have feathered wings on their backs, and either beaks or very long, phallic noses on their faces. They can shapeshift fully into a bird or a human to play tricks on people, or escape from danger. They dress like yamabushi, with pom-pomed sashes and small black wooden skullcaps. They often carry shakujou or magical fans made of feathers.

Tengu are credited with both exceptional skill with a sword and a wicked sense of humor, and in numerous folktales they are portrayed as mischievous, curious, rowdy, and rather gullible. The tengu king Soujoubou is said to have trained the famous warrior Minamoto Yoshitsune, and many ukiyo-e prints show the young Yoshitsune sparring with Soujoubou's bird-billed subjects.

The tengu mask on the wall at the sushi place has a nose you could dry laundry on.

by tengu shoes November 08, 2004