Yamabushi (山伏, one who prostrates oneself on the mountain) are Japanese mountain ascetic hermits. They are generally part of the syncretic shugendō religion...

a specific type of tengu called daitengu and has the appearance of a yamabushi, a Japanese mountain hermit. Daitengu have a primarily human form with...

lapidation (death by stoning). It has traditionally been associated with the yamabushi, hermetic practitioners of the Shugendō religion, because they often used...

(頭襟、兜巾、頭巾、ときん) is a small, black, box-shaped hat traditional to Japan, which yamabushi (mountain ascetic hermits) of shugendō wear on their foreheads. The tokin...

through steep mountain ranges. Practitioners are called Shugenja (修験者) or Yamabushi (山伏, literally "Mountain Prostrator"). The mountains where shugendo is...

perceived as a form of syncretism of Shintô 神道, religion and Buddhism. The Yamabushi 山伏, literally : "the men who sleep in the Mountain" (men who practice...

Shugendō, and they are usually depicted in the garb of its followers, the yamabushi. The tengu in art appears in a variety of shapes. It usually falls somewhere...

this particular weapon are associated with the sōhei (warrior monks) or yamabushi, who also adapt other agricultural tools as weapons, although samurai...

worship as Animism is connected with mountain worship. Later, Shugenjas and Yamabushis, who were descended from Esoteric Buddhism and Taoism, went deep into...

involving monks and children from Kurama temple. On being joined by a rough Yamabushi - an ascetic mountain priest - the party leaves in protest, with the exception...