Oiwa
The most famous Onryō of all time, coming from the tale, Yotsuya Kaidan. Oiwa was the wife of the ronin, Tamiya Iemon. However, when the two had their first child, Oiwa fell into bad health and Iemon is forced to work to support her and the child after killing her father, who had known about Iemon's past. lemon soon started to hate her because of this situation.
Things soon turn bad for Oiwa as Iemon is being persuaded with money to marry the granddaughter of a neighbor. In order to get rid of Oiwa, Iemon gives her a poison posing as a medicine that will give her back her strength. However, when she takes it, instead of killing her, it disfigures her face, eye beginning to droop and causes her hair to fall out. After looking of herself in the mirror and finding out Iemon wanted her gone, she dies. Iemon then nails her body and the body of a servant, who found out about Oiwa's murder, on two sides of a door and throws it into a river.
From there on, Oiwa starts to haunt Iemon. On the day of his wedding day to the granddaughter, he mistakenly beheads her after seeing Oiwa's disfigured face. Iemon is still being haunted by Oiwa after the event, seeing her face everywhere he goes. Her death is finally avenged when lemon's brother-in-law kills him.
Japanese Culture
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| Religion |
| Buddhism - Shinto |
| Japanese Ghosts/Creatures |
| Funayūrei - Goryō - Hitodama - Ikiryō - Onryō - Ubume - Yōkai - Yūrei |
| Specific Japanese Ghosts/Creatures |
| Oiwa - Okiku - Yuki-onna |
| Terms |
| Dosojin - Grave Mound - Hannya Mask - Higanbana - Jizo - Kaidan - Miko - Mukoyōshi - Sanzu River - Shimenawa - Toro-Nagashi - Wara Ningyo |
| Locations |
| Northeastern Japan - Shizuoka - Sugisawa Village - Tono |
| Media and Entertainment |
| Kagome, Kagome - Ringu |