This print, which Yoshitoshi Taiso created sometime in the 1880s, shows a man preparing to fend off a hideous earth-spider demon. The man is wearing the two swords of a samurai, even though it looks as if the spider has just awakened him by pulling off his coverlet.
It comes from the artist's series Shinkei sanju rokkasien, or "36 Hair-Raising Transformations."
