"My Lord Bag-O'-Rice" is English-translated title of Basil Hall Chamberlain's retelling, published as a fairy tale (1887). The hero was entertained at the palace and received rewards including armor and sword, and an inexhaustible bag of rice. The request of a serpent at a bridge, which turned out to be a court lady (or Dragon King) from the underwater Ryūgū-jō ( 龍宮城) "Dragon Palace". He used bow and arrow to kill a giant centipede ( mukade) which wrapped around a mountain near Lake Biwa, fulfilling Some of the fabulous accounts are also told in the military pseudo-chronicle, Taiheiki (14th century). It is part of the otogi-zōshi genre of tales dating to the Edo Period or earlier. The Tale of Tawara Tōda ( 俵藤太物語, Tawara Tōda monogatari ) is a Japanese heroic tale recounting the legendary exploits of Fujiwara no Hidesato.
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