three sheets of thin paper joined together; black ink with touches of red and blue-grey; large spider with very large eyes, looking up, in LLC; diagonal lines extend through picture plane from LLC (spider web?); figure at right on stomach slides between lines; man with flowered pants holding a flaming torch at top center, striding toward spider; jumping man in ULC; rocky landscape in background at center and right; figures in URC peering over rocky peak; blank rectangular cartouche, URC

Minamoto Yorimitsu (Raikō) and His Retainers Attacking the Earth Spider (Tsuchigumo), early 1860s

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Title
Minamoto Yorimitsu (Raikō) and His Retainers Attacking the Earth Spider (Tsuchigumo)
Artist Life
1839 - 1892
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.106.240
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three sheets of thin paper joined together; black ink with touches of red and blue-grey; large spider with very large eyes, looking up, in LLC; diagonal lines extend through picture plane from LLC (spider web?); figure at right on stomach slides between lines; man with flowered pants holding a flaming torch at top center, striding toward spider; jumping man in ULC; rocky landscape in background at center and right; figures in URC peering over rocky peak; blank rectangular cartouche, URC