Honesty Resulted in Her Death Penalty
The story of Yaoya Oshichi
3 min readJan 19, 2021
Yaoya Oshichi was a teenage girl that lived from the mid-1660s through the early 1680s in Edo (present-day Tokyo), Japan. In December of 1682, she fell in love with a temple page named Ikuta Saemon. She met him during a great fire of the Tenna Era where thousands perished. Her house was destroyed, which forced her to take refuge at the local temple, where…
