orochi

Updated: May 10, 2025

Finally he was driven out of Yamato, and retiring to Izumo, found that the local prefect was unable to resist the raids of a tribe from the north under the command of a chief whose name Yachimata no Orochi signified "eight-headed serpent."

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era