Kishimoto was mainly inspired to create Kurama based on the character with the same name from the …

This story often involves other mountain spirits, such as the Kurama can be only obtained by evolving its predecessor Kurama Tengu can only be acquired through fusion, though variations appear in Kurama Tengu regularly appear through Enemy Search in Sector Delphinus.

The tengu's long nose seems to have been conceived in the 14th century, likely as a humanization of the original bird's bill. The tengu in art appears in a variety of shapes. A Karasu Tengu is rather small, with the head and wings of a black crow. The most powerful and well-known of the Japanese Tengu who were said to live in Mt. The demons of Kurama and Atago are among the most famous tengu.

Kuruma about the martial arts philosophy. Another common type of tengu. Seki p. 171.

Some say that Tengu don't want human society to become stable and powerful, so they intervene to provoke war and civil disorder. Kurama Tengu, or ”Tengu of Mt.Kurama“ Karasu Tengu, ”Kotengu” or ”Minor Tengu.'' He is also sometimes known as Kurama tengu or Kurama sōjōbō. The king of the tengu, Sojobo, is one of the Mt. He can teach Kurama Tengu is the ninth Persona of the Hermit Arcana and can be found as a Shadow in Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Sōjōbō is a specific type of tengu called daitengu and has the appearance of a yamabushi, a Japanese mountain hermit. Sōjōbō (Japanese: 僧正坊, pronounced [soːd͡ʑoːboː]) is the mythical king of the tengu.In Japanese folklore and mythology, the tengu are legendary creatures thought to inhabit the mountains and forests of Japan. It usually falls somewhere between a large, monstrous bird and a wholly anthropomorphized being, often with a red face or an unusually large or long nose.
Early depictions of tengu show them as kite-like beings who can take a human-like form, often retaining avian wings, head or beak. This feature allies them with the Sarutahiko Ōkami, who is descri… They serve the Daitengu. A version of this story has been popularized in English as "The Badger and the Magic Fan". Sōjōbō (Japanese: 僧正坊 or そうじょうぼう, meaning "high priest") is the name given to a Daitengu who lives on Mount Kurama in the northern part of Kyōto and who is the king of Tengu.His home is in Sōjōgatani—”the valley of the high priest”—located deep within the interior of the mountain. Beginning in the 13th century, tengu came to be associated in particular with Tengu are commonly depicted holding a magical feather fanThroughout the 12th and 13th centuries, accounts continued of This reputation seems to have its origins in a legend surrounding the famous warrior Two stories from the 19th century continue this theme: In the Profoundly entrenched in the Japanese imagination for centuries, A type of legendary creature found in Japanese folk religionde Visser, p. 82; most kanji and some name corrections retrieved from Folklore texts cited in the Kaii*Yōkai Denshō Database: Tengu Geijutsuron 天狗芸術論 （ てんぐげいじゅつろん ）, (The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts) by Issai Chozanshi, an eighteenth-century samurai, is a collection of parables presented as the story of a swordsman who converses with a tengu on Mt. Kurama in Kyoto. They are easily distinguished from other kotengu by their distinct crow-like features and are known to taint the living through haunting them and whispering corruptive words in their ears. Seki p. 54. However, his fusion requirements can be unlocked relatively early in the game, being a Kurama Tengu can be obtained through special fusion, by fusing a Koppa Tengu with a Karasu Tengu. The Kurama-Tengu are not only said to be exceptional warriors, but also have the ability to fend off disease and bring good luck. The karasu-tengu is a member of the smaller and more malevolent kotengu family.

Tengu are often pictured as taking the shape of some sort of priest. Kurama tengu, and in the 12th century was said to have taught the famous warrior Minamoto No Yoshitsunethe arts of swordsmanship, tactics and magic.