Hansobo Daigongen is a tengu-like guardian deity enshrined at Kenchoji Temple in Kamakura, venerated primarily within Japanese Zen Buddhist tradition as a protector of the temple grounds and its practitioners. According to temple legend, Hansobo appeared to aid a Kenchoji abbot and has since been honored as a guardian spirit associated with safety and the warding off of misfortune. Devotees visit the shrine on the temple's upper slopes to pay respects, though specific protective outcomes attributed to the deity remain a matter of tradition and belief rather than verified fact.