with two oni, or ogre-demons, resembling Gozu and Mezu, which perhaps represent another of the tsuchigumos transformations. See also Jorōgumo References Citations Works cited Further reading Asiatic Society of Japan. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan: Volume 7. The Society. (1879) Aston, William George. Shinto: the way of the gods. Longmans, Green, and Co. (1905) Brinkley, Frank and Dairoku Kikuchi. A history of the Japanese people from the earliest times to the end of the Meiji era. The Encyclopædia Britannica Co. (1915) Horne, Charles Francis. The Sacred books and early literature of the East. Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb: (1917) Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales. Edited by Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2018. pp. 23-30. https://doi.org/10.7312/kimb18446-003 Reider, Noriko T. Japanese Demon Lore: Oni, From Ancient Times to the Present. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2010. pp. 165-169 (two examples of Tsuchigumo in modern media). Studio international, Volume 18. Studio Trust. (1900) Trench, K. Paul. Nihongi: chronicles of Japan from the earliest times to A.D. 697: Volume 1. The Society. Trübner. (1896) Mythological spiders Shapeshifting Japanese mythology Mythological monsters Yōkai