Kuramadera Temple

This guide to Kuramadera Temple in Kyoto follows Ushiwakamaru, a seven-year-old boy sent into these hills in eleven sixty after his father, the warlord Minamoto Yoshitomo, was executed by a rival clan. Raised at the temple as a monk meant to disappear, he began slipping into the forest above at night, into ground locals believed belonged to the tengu, and the legend holds their king found him there and began teaching him.