Sōjōbō is specifically associated with a place on Mount Kurama called Sōjōgatani or Bishop's valley. According to de Benneville, this area was thought to be the haunt of tengu, even … the seat of the court of their goblin-king. Similarly, de Visser says that some tengu live in brilliant palaces and Sōjōbō or the Great Tengu was the Lord of such a palace. Sōjōbō's tengu palace features in the story The Palace of the Tengu. A character in this story, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, reaches the tengu palace by starting at the bottom of the slope of the temple on Mount Kurama, climbing a path up the mountainside until he reaches coloured walls that lead him to the gates of the palace. He finds the palace to be very large, elaborate, and decorated with different jewels. According to the story, the palace contains hundreds of tengu.