My Lord Bag of Rice

"My Lord Bag of Rice" (in Japanese, Tawara Tōda [俵藤太 "Rice-bag Tōda"]) is a fairy tale about a hero who kills the giant centipede Seta to help a Japanese dragon princess, and is rewarded in her underwater Ryūgū-jō 龍宮城 "dragon palace castle". The 1711 Honchō kwaidan koji 本朝怪談故事 contains the best-known version of this Japanese myth about the warrior Fujiwara no Hidesato. There is a Shinto shrine near the Seta Bridge at Lake Biwa where people worship Tawara Tōda 俵藤太 "Rice-bag Tōda" (a pun between tawara "straw rice-bag; straw barrel" and the Japanese name Tawara 田原).

My Lord Bag of Rice

"My Lord Bag of Rice" (in Japanese, Tawara Tōda [俵藤太 "Rice-bag Tōda"]) is a fairy tale about a hero who kills the giant centipede Seta to help a Japanese dragon princess, and is rewarded in her underwater Ryūgū-jō 龍宮城 "dragon palace castle". The 1711 Honchō kwaidan koji 本朝怪談故事 contains the best-known version of this Japanese myth about the warrior Fujiwara no Hidesato. There is a Shinto shrine near the Seta Bridge at Lake Biwa where people worship Tawara Tōda 俵藤太 "Rice-bag Tōda" (a pun between tawara "straw rice-bag; straw barrel" and the Japanese name Tawara 田原).