Kashira with Ômori Hikohichi Carrying a Demon Across a Stream

n.d. 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm) (l.) Citation Source image

Ômori Hikohichi, a 14th-century warrior, is shown with a female demon on his back. Hikohiki is said to have offered to carry a beautiful woman across a stream. While crossing the stream, he saw her reflection as a demon in the water. In some versions of the story he kills her,...

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31942
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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