OKIKU Long ago, there was a young lady called Okiku who worked for a Samurai and his wealthy family. They owned ten valuable plates. It is said that once someone broke a plate and told the samurai that she did it when she was washing it. She was really...
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OKIKU Long ago, there was a young lady called Okiku who worked for a Samurai and his wealthy family. They owned ten valuable plates. It is said that once someone broke a plate and told the samurai that she did it when she was washing it. She was really surprised and scared. She counted the plates…one…two...three…four…five…six… seven…eight…nine… She knew he would be punished by death… so she counted the plates again and again. Her master was so upset that he killed her and threw her corpse in a well. Not long after, her ghost was seen wandering the castle gardens. While people were sleeping, she rose from the well and counted from one to nine, looking for the missing plate. Many of those who lived there got sick; so, one day, the master of the castle asked a priest if he could stop her suffering… He waited for her to come out from the well, he saw her. She started counting from one to nine, and before she could scream for only having nine plates, the priest shouted TEN!!! Okiku’s ghost
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