saved, through prayer, by one of the few living kin of those you had murdered.”
But the soul of the samurai, Yotsu-ya was never saved as the rare prayers offered were blocked through the curse emitted through the terrible visage of the ghost of Oiwa. The avenging spirit never restedng, as it constantly pursued her adversary. Yotsu-ya was condemned to live in the abode of the nether regions like a starving curr with no hope of ever being absolved..
The author is a former correspondent for the Continental News Service (USA), now retired.