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Jorōgumo
right|thumb|upright=0.90|Jorōgumo (by Toriyama Sekien).
Jorōgumo ( Japanese Kanji: , Hiragana: ) is a type of Yōkai, a creature, ghost or goblin of Japanese folklore. According to some stories, a Jorōgumo is a spider that can change its appearance into that of a seductive woman.
In Japanese Kanji, Jorōgumo is written as "" (literally meaning "binding bride") or "" (literally meaning "whore spider"). Jorōgumo can also refer to some species of spiders, but in casual use it can refer to the Nephila and Argiope spiders. Japanese-speaking entomologists use the katakana form of Jorōgumo to refer, exclusively, to the spider species Nephila clavata.