Mount Kurama (鞍馬山, Kurama-yama)[1] is a mountain to the north of the Japanese city of Kyoto.

It is the birthplace of the Reiki practice, and is said to be the home of Sōjōbō, King of the Tengu.

Sōjōbō was supposedly the Tengu who taught swordsmanship to Minamoto no Yoshitsune.

[2] The philosopher Hayashi Razan lists one of the three greatest of the daitengu as Sōjōbō of Mount Kurama.

In 1922 the founder of Reiki, Mikao Usui, meditated for 21 days on this mountain and received the Reiki healing energy and was said to have become an enlightened person and to have gained true insight into the wisdom of life.