Tesso

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title: Tesso
text: Tesso (鉄鼠) is a Japanese yōkai related to the vengeful spirit (onryō) of the Heian period monk Raigō and a mouse. The name "tesso" is a name given by Toriyama Sekien in the Edo period collection of yōkai pictures, the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, and this yōkai can also be called the Raigo-derived name Raigō-nezumi (頼豪鼠) as from the Enkyōhon, a yomihon version of the Heike Monogatari, or Mii-dera-nezumi (三井寺鼠) derived from Mii-dera in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture as in the Edo period yōkai themed kyōka picture
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category slug: encyclopedia
description: Creature in Japanese mythology
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesso
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date modified: 2024-02-26T13:49:28Z
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