a tenement house of the village of Omote in Honjo Ward of Tokyo Prefecture (now Sumida, Tokyo), Kageyama Jōsaku's wife Chiu gave birth to their first daughter. The next year, a second daughter was born but died two days after birth. The first daughter suddenly died after that in seven days. Four-sevens (twenty-eight) days after that, Chiu died. From all these misfortunes one after another, Jōsaku fell behind in expenses and went into debt, and his many creditors confiscated his furniture and household goods one after another. Jōsaku wept and wept, and then was never seen. After that, the tenement house would, at night on the third quarter of the hour of the ox, make yanari sounds, so the residents considered moving away to other lands. It is rumored that the origin of this yanari is the deeds of the vengeful spirits (onryō) of the three family members that Jōsaku lost. Notes See also List of legendary creatures from Japan Japanese mythology