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disguised as a facial cream. Oiwa, unbeknownst to her at the time, is instantly scarred by the cream when she applies it. Upon seeing his wife's ghastly new countenance, Iemon decides he can no longer remain with her. He asks Takuetsu to rape Oiwa so that he will have an honorable basis for divorce. Takuetsu cannot bring himself to do this, so instead he simply shows Oiwa her reflection in a mirror. Realizing that she has been deceived, Oiwa becomes hysterical and, picking up a sword, runs towards the door. Takuetsu moves to grab her but Oiwa, attempting to evade him, accidentally punctures her own throat with the sword's tip. As she lies bleeding to death before a stunned Takuetsu, she curses Iemon's name. Not long after, Iemon becomes engaged to Oume. Act 2 closes with Iemon being tricked by Oiwa's ghost into slaying both Oume and her grandfather on the night of the wedding.
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another effect of the poison. In a spectacular scene in the kabuki play, the living Oiwa sits before a mirror and combs her hair, which comes falling out due to the poison. This scene is a subversion of erotically-charged hair combing scenes in kabuki love plays. The hair piles up to tremendous heights, achieved by a stage hand who sits under the stage and pushes more and more hair up through the floor while Oiwa is combing.
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including television and movie adaptations, have reported mysterious accidents, injuries and even deaths. Prior to staging an adaptation of Yotsuya Kaidan it is now a tradition for the principal actors and the director to make a pilgrimage to Oiwa's grave and ask her permission and blessing for their
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At the opening Naosuke is pressuring Osode to consummate their marriage, to which she seems oddly averse. Yomoshichi appears and accuses Osode of adultery. Osode resigns herself to death in atonement and convinces Naosuke and Yomoshichi that they should kill her. She leaves a farewell note from which
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The play was incredibly successful, and forced the producers to schedule extra out-of-season performances to meet demand. The story tapped into people's fears by bringing the ghosts of Japan out of the temples and aristocrats' mansions and into the home of common people, the exact type of people who
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There are specific traits to Oiwa that set her apart physically from other onryou. Most famous is her left eye, which droops down her face due to poison given her by Iemon. This feature is exaggerated in kabuki performances to give Oiwa a distinct appearance. She is often shown as partially bald,
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Oume, the granddaughter of Itô Kihei, has fallen in love with Iemon. However, believing herself to be less attractive than Oiwa, she doesn't think Iemon will ever want to become her husband. Sympathizing with Oume's plight, the Itôs scheme to have Oiwa disfigured by sending her a topical poison
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The remaining members of the Itô household are annihilated. Iemon kicks Oyumi, the mother of Oume, into the Onbô Canal and Omaki, the servant of Oyumi, drowns by accident. Naosuke arrives in disguise as Gonbei, an eel vendor, and blackmails Iemon into handing over a valuable document. Iemon
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era was a time of social unrest, and the repressed position of women in society was severe. The exchange of power for powerlessness was something audiences could relate to. Oiwa went from a delicate victim to a powerful avenger, while Iemon transforms from tormentor to tormented.
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Iemon, still haunted by the ghost of Oiwa, flees to an isolated mountain retreat. There he rapidly descends into madness as his dreams and reality begin to merge and Oiwa's haunting intensifies. The act closes with Yomoshichi slaying Iemon out of both vengeance and compassion.
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contemplates his prospects while fishing at the Onbô canal. On the embankment above the canal, Iemon, Yomoshichi and Naosuke appear to fumble as they struggle for possession of a note which passes from hand to hand in the darkness.
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have been altered over time, often bearing little resemblance to the original kabuki play, and sometimes removing the ghostly element altogether. However, the base story usually remains the same and recognizable.
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made a visual quotation of Hokusai's design in the illustration above, including Iemon as he turns to meet the apparition, drawing his sword. The lantern scene is a favorite, also being carved into
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when Hitomi is watching the television, the television presenter is morphed into a woman with one small eye and one large eye- possibly a reference to Oiwa.
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Naosuke learns that Osode was his younger sister. For the shame of this, as well as for the killing of his former master, he commits suicide.
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Normally, with a Kabuki double-feature, the first play is staged in its entirety, followed by the second play. However, in the case of
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was having an affair with a servant. The samurai had the faithless concubine and servant nailed to a wooden board and thrown into the
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to Oiwa. Her final appearance is a direct adaptation of Oiwa, including the cascading hair and drooping, malformed eye. Also in
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The first film adaptation was made in 1912, and it was filmed some 18 times between 1913 and 1937. A notable adaptation was
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illustrated the scene at Hebiyama, showing a still-lantern-headed Oiwa coming for Iemon, surrounded by snakes and smoke.
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s popularity is often accounted for by the way it fit the mood of its time, as well as its use of universal
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it was decided to interweave the two dramas, with a full staging on two days: the first day started with
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Oiwa Inari Tamiya Jinja, a shrine connected to one of Japan's most famous ghost stories "Yotsuya Kaidan"
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Galbraith, Stuart (1994). Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. McFarland. p. 357.
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Some critics have identified loose connections between the story of Oiwa and the plot of the
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production. This is considered especially important of the actor assuming the role of Oiwa.
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of all time, it has been adapted for film over 30 times and continues to be an influence on
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removed the ghostly elements and presented Oiwa as an apparition of her husband's guilty
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feel to the name (and also makes it less likely to be misread by Westerners as "Lemon").
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from Act I to Act III. The following day started with the Onbo canal scene, followed by
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appeared at the Nakamuraza Theater in Edo (the former name of present-day Tokyo) as a
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artists as well. In 1826, the same year the play opened at Sumiza Theater in
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Being a popular Kabuki play, Yotsuya Kaidan soon became a popular subject for
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An unusual image featuring a still-living Oiwa was depicted as one of the
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Haunting Gaps: Gender, Modernity, Film and the Ghosts of Yotsuya Kaidan
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Nanboku incorporated two sensational and real-life murders into
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There have also been adaptations on television. Story 1 of the
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created perhaps the most iconic image of Oiwa, in his series
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Yotsuya is a neighborhood in the southeastern section of
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returned to the Kabuki roots and combined the stories of
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As the most-adapted Japanese ghost story, the details of
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from Act VII to Act XI, then came Act IV and Act V of
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Oiwa is supposedly buried at a temple, Myogyo-ji, in
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a cup of tea in her victory pose in the arcade game
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Japanese horror
kabuki
double-feature
Kanadehon Chushingura
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concubine
Kanda River

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