shot-down-guided-by-cry

Nue · salience 0.8

“According to the Heike Monogatari, the warrior Minamoto no Yorimasa was called upon to end the affliction and, after the nue had eluded ordinary countermeasures, shot it down with a bow in the darkness above the palace, guided by the sound of its cry and, in some tellings, the light of a companion's torch.”