Japanese Print "Fujiwara Hidesato Shooting the Centipede" by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Artist:Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title:Fujiwara Hidesato Shooting the Centipede
Date:August 24, 1890
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Source:Worcester Art Museum
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Description:
Fujiwara Hidesato is the hero of a legend in which he kills a giant centipede. One day while crossing the Seta Bridge near Lake Biwa in Omi province near Kyoto, Hidesato was confronted by a dragon. When he bravely walked on its back, it suddenly transformed itself into an old man. The old man, actually the Dragon King Ryujin, praised Hidesato for his courage and asked him to slay the monster-centipede Mukade which terrorized the lake. While watching over the sleeping Princess Otohime in Ryujin's underwater pala
