{"id":8165,"date":"2018-10-25T12:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2018-11-23T11:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:42:25","slug":"okiku-yokai-halloween-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/okiku-yokai-halloween-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Okiku – Yokai Halloween 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okiku<\/a>‘s story is one of the most tragic and, despite being hundreds of years old, still incredibly relevant today. She was a beautiful young woman who was a servant and dishwasher at Himeji castle. A retainer named Aoyama wanted her for his lover but she refused. Eventually he framed her for losing a prized plate and said he would not report it to their master if she agreed to be with him. Still, she refused. He resorted to beating her and repeatedly dunking her in the will and yet she still refused. Eventually his rage and fury took over and he stabbed her with his sword and dropped her body into the well.<\/p>\n

Her vengeful ghost haunted the castle, looking for the missing dish, and tormented Aoyama until the lord called a priest to the palace to deal with the situation. He pretended to have found the missing dish and Okiku’s ghost was finally able to rest.<\/p>\n\n\t\t