Tengyan: Minakata Kumagusu den appears in the table of contents of 12 Weekly Shonen Jump issues (週刊少年ジャンプ, Shueisha), between 1990 and 1991. Its first chapter appears in issue 50, 1990, published November 26, 1990. Its final chapter appears in issue 10, 1991, published February 25, 1991.