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The {{nihongo|'''Taizanji Kenpō'''|泰山寺拳法||"[[wikipedia:Mount Tai|Taishan]] Temple Martial Arts"}} was the original rival style of [[Hokuto Shin Ken]] in the two pilot episodes of [[Hokuto no Ken]] drawn and written by [[Tetsuo Hara]]. In the present day setting of the pilot episodes, the Taishan Temple is an organization of assassins that disguises themselves to the public as a regular martial arts school, working primarily as assassins for powerful political figures. Eventually, they carried much influence over the world's governments, extending their hands to Japan. When [[Hokuto no Ken]] was picked up as a series, this storyline was discarded and [[Nanto Sei Ken]] (and later [[Hokuto Ryū Ken]]) took on the role of [[Hokuto Shinken|Hokuto Shin Ken]]'s primary rival style, reducing the Taishan style to a minor one used primarily by small fry characters. According to the 1986 publication ''Hokuto no Ken Special: All About the Man'', the school's name is derived the Chinese epithet {{nihongo|"Mount Tai & Big Dipper"|[[wikipedia:ja:泰斗|泰山北斗]]|Taizan Hokuto}} from [[wikipedia:New Book of Tang|The New Book of Tang]]'s [[wikipedia:Han Yu|Han Yu]] Chapter<ref>[http://zh.wikisource.org/zh/新唐書/卷176#附_劉乂 新唐書/卷176 列傳第101 韓愈附]</ref>, since they were the original enemies of the [[Hokuto Shin Ken]] style.