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Minamoto raiko tsuchigumo o kiru zu (Minamoto no yorimitsu preparing to kill the earth spider) from New Forms of 36 Ghosts

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Minamoto raiko tsuchigumo o kiru zu
Title:Minamoto raiko tsuchigumo o kiru zu (Minamoto no yorimitsu preparing to kill the earth spider) from New Forms of 36 Ghosts
Artist:Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 
Date:1892
Description:Tsuchigumo is not a name of an actual living spider.

 In the generation of MINAMOTO no Yorimitsu(raiko), Hizamaru was renamed Kumokiri as he cut Tsuchigumo (a spider) that made him suffer from a fever.

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