Tenome

A close Illustration of a Tenome

Tenome (手の目, eyes of hand, or rather eyes on hand) is a Japanese mythical creature illustrated in the first book of Toriyama Sekien's series, Gazu Hyakki Yakō (画図百鬼夜行, "The Illustrated Night Parade of A Hundred Demons") as a man-like creature with its eyes not in its face, but in the palm of its hands.

Illustration of the Tenome in Gazu Hyakki Yakō

An illustration dramatizing a witness's recorded testimony of an encounter with the Tenome

Origin

The origin of Tenome is that a man-like creature with eyes in his hands rather than his skull. [画図 There is little more expository writing about the creature.

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The following is a first person account according to a traditional story handed down in the Iwate Prefecture. "I had walked the field that night a traveler when a blind man came closer. He was blind in that he had no eyes in his head, but one in each palm. He held his hands forward, looking at me. Surprise I escaped and ran to an inn. The innkeeper explained the man 'some time ago in Echigo a blind man was killed by a bandit. Before death he saw a glimpse of the bandit's face. He came back as a monster with a strong grudge against his hands which failed to defend him, now with eyes capable of sight in the palms of his hands, yet none in his head as he was blind in life" [4].

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In popular culture

• Pan's labyrinth (El laberinto del Fauno, "Faun's Labyrinth"): In the Spanish movie directed by Guillermo del Toro, the main character (Ofelia) is given a second task which consists in retrieving an ornate dagger from the dungeon of a character known as "the Pale man", which resembles the Tenome. This scene was one of the most famous from this particular film.
• Release from Agony: On the album cover for Release From Agony by Destruction depicts a Tenome hooked up to an IV.