Dainippon famous generals: soujima takashi, inada hime. It depicts the legend of yamata no orochi, where susanoo saved princess inada. When susanoo-no-mikoto descended into heaven above the river bamboo river in the country of izumo, he met an elderly couple who were mourning with a princess in tow, and heard the story of the raging eight-pronged serpent. In order to get rid of the serpent, mikoto made poisonous liquor and gave it to drink, and when it was drunk, he cut it off with ten fistfuls of his sword, and obtained the sword of amamuragumo from the tip of its tail. He then married this princess and went to the land of suga, where he wrote a poem saying, ``yakumo tatsu's izumo yaegaki tsumagome will build a double fence. ''. Date: 1879.
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