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Tanjiro grew up on a mountain along with his younger siblings and parents as the eldest son of the Kamado family. At some point in his life, his father, Tanjuro Kamado, passed away, which led to his siblings treating him as a father figure.

Tanjiro was very loving towards his siblings, going out of his way to care for them. When one of his brothers accidentally knocked over a kettle, he protected him and received a burn scar on his forehead as a result. Tanjiro was responsible for selling charcoal in the nearest town in order to earn money for the family and appeared to frequent the town quite often, as the civilians there easily recognised him and regularly asked for his help.

After arriving back home the next day, Tanjiro returns to find his entire family slaughtered by a Demon, save for his younger sister Nezuko. Tanjiro picks her up and, while attempting to carry her to the nearest doctor, discovers that she has been transformed into a Demon and is promptly attacked by her. While Tanjiro struggles to fend off the attack from his Demon-turned sister, Giyu Tomioka attacks the latter from behind, only for his attempt to fail as the former moves his target out of the way. Recovering quickly, the swordsman asks the youth why he protected the Demon. Tanjiro tells him it was because the creature is his sister. Looking at the maddened Nezuko, Giyu questions this statement before swiftly removing the girl from her brother's grip.

Tanjiro then prostrates himself before the swordsman, begging for his sister's life. Giyu grows angry, stating that the youth has no authority over who lives or who dies as he was too weak to protect even his own family. He also refers to all of his talk about finding a cure for his sister's condition and his family's killer is ridiculous. Stating that neither he nor the Demon Lords would have any respect for such a miserable display, Giyu demands that Tanjiro prove his dedication to protecting his sister by drawing his axe. As the youth ponders these words, Giyu silently encourages him to find the resolve necessary to accomplish all of the lofty goals he had placed upon himself. He then stabs Nezuko in the chest, causing Tanjiro to throw a stone at him in fury. Distracted, the swordsman is attacked by Nezuko, dodging backwards from her kick. Cursing himself, Giyu watches as the girl reaches for her brother, certain that she was going to devour him. To his surprise, she instead stands protectively in front of his vulnerable body before charging at him in rage. Giyu recalls Tanjiro's previous assertion that Nezuko wouldn't eat humans, noting that somebody a long time ago had said the same thing and had been killed regardless. He further reflects on the nature of Demons, in particular, the high amount of stamina lost during the transformation process, and what they do to alleviate the lost stamina and prevent starvation: eat humans, even those closest to them. Seeing that Nezuko was not following this example, Giyu sheathes his sword, incapacitating the unusual Demon with a barehanded blow to the neck.

Near sunset, Tanjiro is told by a villager that to reach Sagiri Mountain, he would need to pass through a perilous mountain where people were disappearing. Unafraid, he ignores the warning and encounters a way station with lights on, immediately smelling blood. He goes inside to check on possibly harmed travellers. Just as they enter, Tanjiro and Nezuko see a Demon feasting on three travellers he had just killed. When the Demon notices them, it feels something odd but quickly jumps on Tanjiro trying to strangle him while Nezuko replies with a kick powerful enough to rip the Demon's head off. Even without a head, the Demon still commands its body to attack and grows a pair of arms on its head, much to Tanjiro's shock. As the body furiously attacks Nezuko, Tanjiro double headbutts the head in order to get an opening and pins it to a tree nearby. With half of the Demon restrained, Tanjiro goes to help Nezuko by tackling the body of the Demon and throws it off a cliff. Although he almost falls off, Tanjiro is saved by his sister. Despite causing it excruciating pain with the destruction of its body, the Demon does not die.

Tanjiro realises the Demon pinned in front of him smells different from the one he sensed in their house. Holding his knife, he contemplates whether or not he should kill the Demon, the hand of a figure wearing a Tengu mask touches his shoulder suddenly interrupting his thoughts. The mysterious man tells him he would be unable to end the Demon's life with such a blunt weapon. Tanjiro questions the man on how to properly kill a Demon, only to be told that he would need to figure it out himself. To the man's disappointment, Tanjiro is too compassionate and overthinks, accidentally letting the Demon perish by the sun's first rays. After the Demon's death, Tanjiro notices the man already giving a proper burial to the Demon's victims.

The Tengu-masked man introduces himself as Sakonji Urokodaki and asks if Tanjiro was the one Giyu spoke of in his letter, Tanjiro confirming the statement. Sakonji follows his question by scolding Tanjiro for his inability to make quick decisions, slapping him when he hesitates to reply to what he would do if his sister decided to feast upon a human. Sakonji states that Tanjiro lacks resolution, stressing that he must not allow his sister to harm another human under any circumstance, else he should kill both her and himself. Sakonji then tells Tanjiro to follow him, saying that he would be tested to see if he would fit the role of a Demon Slayer.

At some point after the training had begun, Nezuko falls into an endless slumber, deeply worrying Tanjiro. Sakonji tries calling a doctor, but he mentions that there isn't anything wrong with her. Tanjiro has the feeling that at any day he wakes up, his sister would be dead. He keeps a journal which he writes in daily to remember what he learns from Sakonji and to also serve as something Nezuko could read once she wakes up. Finally, after a year passes, Sakonji tells Tanjiro that there is nothing left to teach him, instructing him to prove himself by working upon the basics he had been taught. He is led to a giant boulder and his master tells him that if he can split it in half with his sword, he would be permitted to go to the Final Selection. While Tanjiro hesitates, overcome with doubt, Sakonji leaves without a word, his hand in the boy's training completed.

Tanjiro starts training by his own harder and harder for half a year, still not successful and thinking his skills weren't enough. One day, after headbutting the boulder in desperation, a shout for silence is heard by Tanjiro. A boy with a fox mask appears on the top of the boulder, scolding Tanjiro for his whining. Tanjiro does not understand where he came from, nor did he sense his smell. The boy proceeds to attack Tanjiro with a wooden sword, which the latter defends against using the hilt of his sword. Despite wielding a real sword compared to the boy's wooden sword, Tanjiro promptly receives insults from the boy and is knocked out after a short fight.

A girl with a fox mask is present next to him as Tanjiro wakes up. She asks if he was alright, but he is too impressed by the fox-masked boy's combat skills to respond. The girl proceeds to assure Tanjiro that she would watch over him and help improve his techniques. She clarifies her name as Makomo and the boy's name as Sabito. Makomo spends some time pointing out the defects and correcting the unnecessary movements in Tanjiro's techniques. Tanjiro comes to know that Makomo and Sabito were not siblings and they were raised by Sakonji, along with other children whom she implied had been watching over Tanjiro as well. Makomo instructs Tanjiro about the concept of the Total Concentration Breathing Technique: by expanding his lungs and bringing a lot of air to his bloodstream, his temperature would shoot up and his heartbeat would accelerate to become as strong as a Demon. After six months had passed, Tanjiro learns with Makomo how to smell out an opening thread that goes from his blade to a spot in his opponent; once he can see this thread, a slash can be made perfectly. At some time, Tanjiro continues sparring with Sabito to improve what he had learned.

One day, a longer-haired Tanjiro faces Sabito, who held a real sword, in the simplest contest: the faster blade would win. For the first time ever, Tanjiro's blade reaches Sabito's mask and splits it in half. Sabito's face is revealed, holding a sad smile. Makomo and Sabito disappear while smiling and Tanjiro realises he had not split the mask, but rather the huge boulder.

Tanjiro is praised by Sakonji while also being told that Sakonji actually did not want him to participate in the Final Selection, lest he'd risk another one of his children being killed. Tanjiro cries as they hug and Sakonji urges him to come back alive. Sakonji cuts Tanjiro's hair and gives him a white mask resembling a fox with a sun symbol in the same place Tanjiro had his mark as a way to ward off evil. While leaving, Tanjiro tells Sakonji to give his best to Makomo and Sabito, surprising Sakonji with the fact his student knew the names of his long-deceased students. Tanjiro arrives at Fujikasane Mountain and gathers around with the other contestants. A young boy with black hair and a young girl with white hair walk in and explain that Demons hate Wisteria flowers which grow abundantly until this area, even out of season. From this point on, there would be no more Wisteria, and Demons captured by the Corps roamed free. Their trial is very straightforward: survive for seven days. With determination, Tanjiro and the others march ahead.

Two Demons immediately start assaulting Tanjiro, but he quickly smells the opening thread while avoiding their advances and seizes the opportunity to decapitate both in a single strike. Sakonji had bestowed upon Tanjiro a special sword called the Nichirin Blade, which, at the decapitation of the Demon, would crumble its corpse, preventing it from regenerating and effectively killing it. Tanjiro smells a rotten scent when praying for the souls of the Demons he had just killed. Advancing closer to the centre of the scent, Tanjiro finds a fellow contestant running away from a giant Demon with several hands swirled over its body. The Demon tries to kill the contestant, but Tanjiro pushes himself to act, saving the boy. The Demon recognises Tanjiro as an Urokodaki student by his fox mask.

As the Demon starts describing how it killed both Sabito and Makomo, Tanjiro starts breathing heavily. In an angry response, he charges at the Demon, slicing several of his arms, but is hit by a hook punch on his rib cage and thrown in the nearby tree, hitting his head and fainting. Tanjiro hears a call to waken from one of his deceased brothers while unconscious, regaining consciousness in the nick of time and dodging the Demon's onslaught. Shortly retaliating, Tanjiro cuts more arms from the Demon but realises that no matter how many arms he cut, more would grow. Tanjiro suddenly leaps very high in response to smelling the Demon's hands underground. While in midair, the Demon tries to take advantage and strike him down, but Tanjiro uses an improvised headbutt in defence, rolling forwards and positioning himself in range of the Demon's head. Tanjiro used Water Breathing, First Form: Water Surface Slash and decapitates the Demon. Contrary to the Demon's belief that Tanjiro would feel disdain towards its existence, the young swordsman feels sorrow holding the hand of the Demon while its corpse crumbled, praying for God to not let it become a Demon again when it reincarnates. Tanjiro thinks to himself that all children trained under Sakonji that perished could be at ease now.

On the morning of the seventh day, Tanjiro and three other contestants are congratulated for having survived the trial. One fellow contestant seems aloof, another is still frightened about the trial he had just passed and the last one questions about when they would get their official Nichirin blades. The two children introduce the Demon Slayer uniforms and the ranking system ranging from the lowest to highest rank, in which the Final Selection survivors were of the lowest. A Kasugaigarasu is provided, which would fulfil the task of following the new Demon Hunters at all time for communication purposes, and a crow lands on Tanjiro's shoulder. Out of impatience for receiving his blade, survivor Genya Shinazugawa hits Kanata Ubuyashiki, one of the spokespersons. This prompts Tanjiro to roughly grab his arm and ask for him to calm down. The boy does not comply and Tanjiro breaks his arm in the process. Afterwards, each survivor is asked to choose an alloy for their Nichirin Blade to be forged from.

Sometime later, Tanjiro climbs down Fujikasane Mountain feeling a wave of weariness, his body in pain from the fatigue he had sustained from the trial with even the new uniform appearing too heavy for him to carry. Tanjiro is troubled by his emotions for not being able to hold a conversation with any of the Demons before killing them and thus losing the chance to ask about a way to turn a Demon back to a human.

A weary, grimy and bandage-covered Tanjiro, using a stick as a crutch, eventually arrives back at Sakonji's house. As he makes his way towards the entrance, he suddenly hears the front door being knocked down from inside. Nezuko walks out the house, much to Tanjiro's surprise of the awakening from her slumber. Tanjiro tries to reach her but falls to the ground out of exhaustion. Nezuko immediately picks him up and embraces him as Tanjiro starts crying out of relief. In the tenderness of the moment, Sakonji appears and embraces them both, weeping out of happiness that Tanjiro came back alive.

Plot= Drum House Arc

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 * kanji=竈門 炭十郎
 * rōmaji=Kamado Tanjūrō
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 * race=Human
 * gender=Male
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 * hair_color=Black to Red
 * eye_color=Dark Red
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 * status=Deceased
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 * manga_debut= Chapter 1 (partial) Chapter 39 (full)
 * anime_debut=Episode 1 (flashback)
 * japanese_voice=Shin-ichiro Miki
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 * image_gallery=Tanjuro Kamado/Image Gallery