Kiss of the Kuchisake-Onna

Kiss of the Kuchisake-Onna was one of the most popular stories collected in the Hyakumonogatari Kaidenkai, a comprehensive monogatari of popular Kwaidan. It was often performed as a puppet-play or a Kabuki play. Book of Void, pp. 129, 131 This Kaidanshu granted the user the ability to deny the passions of the body which the tale showed as so dangerous. Book of Void, p. 143
== Origins ==
The tale of uncertain origin was set in the Licensed Quarter of Ryoko Owari, and collected by the ronin shugenja Seikansha as an account of a Crab officer during that clan's brief occupation of the City of Lies which involved a demon called a dokufu (“mountain spider”) hunting his men. Book of Void, p. 131
== Tale ==
Yasuki Taro was a Crab during that clan's brief occupation of the City of Lies. He spent his spare time in the floating world of Teardrop Island. Taro was amused by a samurai-ko, and began to court her. They were alone in a tiny skiff when moonlight exposed the beautiful maiden as a dokufu. The mountain spider hunted other Crab men, and she would be known as Kuchisake-Onna. Book of Void, p. 132
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