A well is the place
A handsome ghost appears
It is always a woman
Not a man
Not a girl
Wearing a white kimono
Long jet black wet hair
Hands hanging down lifelessly from her wrists
At her chest
Desperate and trembling she moans
Whining her sorrows
A ghost lady comes out from
A well weeping willow behind
It is always during summer
Not winter
Not spring
A gorgeous snow white face
Downcast teary eyes
Her legless body floating just above the well
No rope
No string
Yet she is confined to the well
The well’s disappeared
Along with her
From us, Forever
Chitose shared a response to our trigger word 'well'
- the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Lemon and her poem inspired by it.
It is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge.
Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story of all time
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