Tsuchi

As for the things told in the Chronicles about short bodies, long limbs, pigmies, and nets of dolichos, they may be dismissed as mere fancies suggested by the name Tsuchi-gumo, which was commonly supposed to mean "earth-spiders."

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

These provinces were ruled by chieftainesses, who declared themselves loyal to the Imperial cause, and gave information about the haunts and habits of the "brigands," who in Suwo had no special appellation but in Buzen were known as Tsuchi-gumo, a name to be spoken of presently.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Have a new version of Wild Honey on the backburner, as well as that Tsuchi story I mentioned; did a little thinking on each one yesterday, as well as refamiliarising myself with Strange Flesh.

Scribble scribble, you tore your ms 2009

Tsuchi, outcast rabbit-woman paladin, my alter ego around age 11.

News from the House of Sticks - 2009

Tsuchi, outcast rabbit-woman paladin, my alter ego around age 11.

News from the House of Sticks - 2009

I'm currently writing a short story about Tsuchi, albeit in human rather than Lepun form.

More of that teenage art I once threatened you with 2009

*** Mr. Takahashi, a Japanese archaeologist, suggests that these weapons were the so called "mallet-headed swords" said to have been used by Keiko's soldiers (A.D. 82) against the Tsuchi-gumo.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

The same fate seems to have befallen numerous captives made in the campaign against the Kumaso, and doubtless wholesale acts of self-destruction committed by Tsuchi-gumo and Kumaso when overtaken by defeat were prompted by preference of death to slavery.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Bungo, Tsuchi-gumo in; Xavier in; Jesuit headquarters; Christian success among nobles; in embassy of 1582

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

In dealing with the second, he was driven back once by their rain of arrows, and when he attacked from another quarter, the Tsuchi-gumo, their submission having been refused, flung themselves into a ravine and perished.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886