BreathLong was the first wife of the fourteenth O-Kimi.
“My dear Pei-kah陛下(Your Majesty, Korean pronunciation),” she whispered, putting her lips on his neck, “you are able to conquer the Earth Spiders 土蜘蛛(soil/dirt spiders)on Kyushu Island.” Her long hair smelled like musk in winter and jasmine in summer; the perfumes were brought by her father every autumn. She wanted to go to Kyushu, nearer to her mother’s homeland.
Isolated Connected Kyushu Island, page 250
Photo from Tokyo National Museum, soil/dirt spiders, 14th century
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