In Amamioshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, the one well-known as 'Tengonukami" lives in a mountain, and it is said that a master carpenter gave life to straw men by blowing forth in order to have them work to build a house with 60 mats for his bride in a day, and had 2,000 men go back to the mountain and another 2,000 to the sea.
鹿児島県奄美大島でも、山に住む「テンゴヌカミ」が知られ、大工の棟梁であったが、嫁迎えのため六十畳の家を一日で作るので藁人形に息を吹きかけて生命を与えて使い、二千人を山に、二千人を海に帰したと言う。