'Hidesato and the Centipede', 1912. Fujiwara no Hidesato a court bureaucrat of 10th century Heian Japan is fabled with killing a giant centipede at the undersea palace of Ryujin. From "Myths & Legends of Japan", by F. Harland Davis. [George G. Harrap & Company, London, 1912]

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