The monster known as Shuten dōji was a cannibal, capturing young girls and eating them. Minamoto no Yorimitsu and his band of four men eventually tracked the monster down and tricked it with drugged wine. After slaying it, they released the captured girls.
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 23 April-22 September 2013, Manjū: Netsuke from the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Joyce Seaman, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 78 on pp. 192-194, illus. p. 193
Manjū, netsuke
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