Here is a work by the print-maker Hokusai, one of Japan's greatest artists. It illustrates a folk tale about a servant-girl named Okiku. She had broken one of her master's plates, and when he discovered it, he threw her into a well. According to the legend, people could hear the ghost of Okiku rattle the plates (which you can see in her hair) as she counted them over and over.
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