dai-oji

Updated: July 12, 2025

Opening the box, he saw the bleeding head of a young child. Entering his house, he found upon the floor of the guest-room the dead body of his own infant son with the head torn off. Of the cemetery Dai-Oji, which is in the street called Nakabaramachi, this story is told-

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