The man's name was lemmon, his wife's was O'Iwa, and his motive was that he desired another woman. O'Iwa, barely risen from childbed, was given poison, which caused her hair to fall out in bloody handfuls, her eyes to start from their sockets and her pretty mouth to blacken. All through this ordeal, lemmon sneered; then he thrust her from him. In despair, she killed herself and her infant.
lemmon felt no remorse. Now he was free to do as he wished - or so he thought. He soon found that his deed had a terrifying price. With a ghoul's fury, O'Iwa appeared to him everywhere. If he sought peace in a teahouse, the lanterns, gaily painted in human likeness, assumed the staring eyes of O'Iwa and mouthed curses at him. If he walked in a garden, he would find her there, wailing over her infant. Her bitter accustations ceaselessly sounded in his ears.
Defiant, lemmon married his paramour, thinking that the ghost might realize the futility of further haunting. But when he lifted his lover's bridal veil after the wedding, the face looking back at him was O'Iwa's. Howling he drew his sword and beheaded the specter. And then lemmon discovered O'Iwa's final vengeance. He had murdered his bride, not the ghost.
