"Yaoya-Oshichi"
(Mar. 29, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo)

Oshichi, a 16 year-old daughter of the vegetable store, located in the present Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, was burned alive cause of the guilty of setting fire. This picture is the grave of Oshichi at Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. As Oshichi engaged people's sympathy, she appears in the work of Saikaku Ihara(1642`1693), and in a drama.

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