Tenma

天 (てん) 魔 (ま) Tenma temma (♫)
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Species	Tengu
Abilities	Unknown
Occupation	Chief of the Tengu
Location	Youkai Mountain
Appearances
Official Games
Mountain of Faith (Referenced in Aya's Official Profile)
Print Works
Perfect Memento in Strict Sense (Mentioned in article)

Tenma (天魔) is an enigmatic character, only known to be the chief of the tengu on the Youkai Mountain. They were first mentioned as the Tengu boss in the Tengu section of Perfect Memento in Strict Sense.

Concept

Name

The first character of Tenma, Ten (天) means "heaven" and the second, ma (魔) means "demon".

When the Hindi god Māra was adapted to Japanese Buddhism, it was translated as "天魔" (temma), the abbreviation form of "第六天魔王 (dai-roku temma-ou) — Māra (魔羅), the king (王) of the sixth dimension of god's living (第六天), which is the top dimension of the desire world. He was originally a Buddhist god, but Japanese people have had him identified with tengu, so he was commonly seen to be the boss of tengu.

Tenma is sometimes confused with the term "great tengu" who are a management type of tengu (see Perfect Memento in Strict Sense: Tengu).

Story

Mountain of Faith

Main article: Mountain of Faith Story

In Mountain of Faith, the great tengu (management types, not to be confused with the boss tengu, Tenma) receives a report from Momiji about intruders on the mountain and sends her and Aya to investigate. After discovering that they weren't hostile, Tenma and the Mountain God (presumably Kanako) decided to pursue friendly relations, though the full details of the discussion were kept secret.

Relationships

Aya Shameimaru (subordinate)

Hatate Himekaidou (subordinate)

Momiji Inubashiri (subordinate)

Megumu Iizunamaru (subordinate)

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Tenma

Official Sources

  Official sources

• 2006/12/27 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense - Tengu article
• 2007/08/17 Mountain of Faith - Stage 4 dialogue (Marisa, Reimu) ; キャラ設定.txt (Aya's profile)
• 2010/03/14 Double Spoiler