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Japan: Tsuchigumo, the 'earth spider', being killed by Minamoto no Yorimitsu. From the 'Tsuchigumo Zoshi'...

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Japan: Tsuchigumo, the 'earth spider', being killed by Minamoto no Yorimitsu. From the 'Tsuchigumo Zoshi' scroll, Tosa Nagataka, 14th century
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C14th AD
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Tsuchigumo are monstrous creatures with the body of a tiger, limbs of a spider, and the face of a demon. They capture, bind and eat unwary travelers. When Minamoto no Yorimitsu killed a Tsuchigumo, 1,990 human skulls fell out of its belly. The Tsuchigumo no Zoshi Emaki (Narrative picture scroll of the story of the earth spider is a picture scroll depicting a story of a battle between Tsuchigumo and Minamoto no Yorimitsu, a general in the mid-Heian period. The story is well known as an episode in Taiheiki (a warrior tale) and the Noh song 'Tsuchigumo'.

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Japan / Asia / monster / fantastic creature / superstition / ghosts / strange beings / arts / spirit / dirt spider / ghost / asia / historical images / art / min amoto no yorimitsu / historical / asian / supernatural / spirits / japanese / historical pictures / monsters / paintings / earth spider / painting / history / tosa nagataka / tsuchigumo soushi / tsuchigumo zoshi / tsuchigumo

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