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Updated: August 15, 2026

He then instructs the old man and his wife to build a fence with eight gates, placing in every gate a vat of rice wine. Presently the serpent arrives, drinks the wine, and laying down its heads to sleep, is cut to pieces by Susanoo with his ten-span sabre.

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