Banshû sarayashiki
This was the first vision of Okiku, one of Japan's seminal avenging female ghosts. The legend of Okiku, a servant-girl tortured and murdered by Aoyama Tessan, her lustful master, was adapted... Read allThis was the first vision of Okiku, one of Japan's seminal avenging female ghosts. The legend of Okiku, a servant-girl tortured and murdered by Aoyama Tessan, her lustful master, was adapted for bunraku theatre under the title Banchu Sarayashiki in 1741, and Nakawa Harusuke I's k... Read allThis was the first vision of Okiku, one of Japan's seminal avenging female ghosts. The legend of Okiku, a servant-girl tortured and murdered by Aoyama Tessan, her lustful master, was adapted for bunraku theatre under the title Banchu Sarayashiki in 1741, and Nakawa Harusuke I's kabuki version of the same name was the first staged in Osaka in 1824, In the play , Okiku ... Read all