Case file · Haunting
Oiwa and the Yotsuya Kaidan
Tsuruya Nanboku IV's kabuki play 'Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan' opened in Edo in 1825, telling of Oiwa, poisoned and disfigured by her husband, whose ghost destroys him.
1825 CE · 35.69, 139.72 · status: legend
The account
Actors and film crews still visit the Oiwa Inari Tamiya shrine in Yotsuya before staging the story, because accidents during productions are blamed on her curse.
The sceptical view
Oiwa is a fictional character loosely based on rumours; 'curses' on productions are coincidence remembered selectively.