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Greengrocer Oshichi Ibun
Oshichi, the daughter of a grocer in Hongo, took refuge in Komagome Kichijoji Temple after the great fire of Tenwa 2, where she fell in love with Kichisaburo, a temple peasant, but her feelings for him turned out to be ill-fated due to their different statuses. In her longing to be reunited with Kichisaburo, she set fire to her house and was executed by fire in Suzukamori...
Yuji Hayano, the standard-bearer of heroine eroticism, has boldly adapted the rare menhera woman depicted in Ihara Saikaku's "Koshoku Gonin Onna" ("Five Lustful Women") and became a motif of Kabuki and Joruri (dramatic drama). The neo sensual period drama series begins!
Oh, I’ve heard of this one. This is supposedly the origin of the superstition that women born in the year of the Fire Horse, Oshichi’s year of birth, develop a temper that shortens their husbands’ life (or that they kill their husbands, heard both). That’s the explanation given for the sharp dip in the birth rate in Japan in 1966, the year of the Fire Horse.