Grounded in the accounts of Sancai Tuhui and the Wakan Sansaizue, this depiction centers on the paired action of the Long-Leg (Ashinaga) and Long-Arm (Tenaga). The Long-Leg wades far into shallow seas, straddling reefs between waves to provide stable footing, while the Long-Arm extends his reach beneath the surface to gather fish and shellfish and to handle nets and baskets. They are recorded as foreign peoples, unattached to specific locales or clans. Dimensions are often given as legs three jo and arms two jo, though sources vary and no single physique is fixed. In Japan they appear in palace screen paintings, caricatures, and kusazoshi, where a set piece of the two cooperating against rough seas became standard. Religiously, they are sometimes placed in Dragon Palace tales as orderly retainers of the sea deity. As folklore, they symbolize otherworldly labor and the extension of reach across distance, and were consumed as images for maritime safety and plentiful catches. Reports of a solitary “Long-Leg” appearing as a weather portent are a separate tradition borrowing the name and should be distinguished from this paired form with Long-Arm.