Abe no Seimei as depicted in the nineteenth-century biographical collection Zenken kojitsu. In the foreground is the spirit he controls. (Courtesy National Diet Library)
Abe no Seimei visits a sick monk at Miidera in Shiga Prefecture in Naki Fudō engi (Legend of the Weeping Fudō). (Courtesy Nara National Museum)
A young Abe no Seimei appears with his fox mother in Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s Kuzunoha-gitsune dōji no wakaruru no zu (The Fox-Woman Kuzunoha Leaving Her Child). (Courtesy National Diet Library)
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