Kanshin later became a general and took the man as a retainer.

The tengu were mythical forest creatures, to whose tuition Yoshitsune owed his powers as a warrior. They occur in two varieties; the konoha tengu, of human form and with a long nose and the karasu [crow] tengu, with a bird's beak, wings and feathers which hatches from an egg. The egg may have come further into prominence in netsuke designs after the Dutch introduced ostrich eggs into Nagasaki, giving extra credance to the tengu legends.