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The Man Who Stole a Mountain (And Changed His Identity to Match)

Perfect Yamajiro Material: The 20-Year Cold War of Tendō Mountain

Jun 22, 2026
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This mountain. Just a random mountain in the middle of Tendo. Or is it?

Last time we established that around the year 740AD a monk named Gyoki had an encounter with purple haze, and came up with the name for the mountain in the middle of Tendo, Tendo-zan: ‘Heavenly Children’. We also established that the townspeople got sick of the name Tendo-zan, and ga…

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