Yamauba bore Kintarō in the deep mountains and raised him in the wilderness, where he grew strong wrestling bears and uprooting trees with his bare hands.
⚠ Some later Edo-period retellings present Yamauba as a foster mother who found the child abandoned, rather than his birth mother.
Minamoto no Yorimitsu discovered the young Kintarō living wild in the Ashigara mountains with his mother Yamauba. Recognizing the boy's supernatural strength, Yorimitsu recruited him into his service as one of the Shitennō.
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