Vermin in the Pit, Wazo from Shin-nyu #2
1958 - 1963

Yama no Dani, Shin-nyu no Wazo #2
[Vermin in the Pit, Wazo from Shin-nyu #2]
20.9 x 29.9 cm Ink Painting

According to an old saying, no one can stop a villain from doing evil when he is strong, but he must pay for doing wrong someday. The evil man was destined to be put to the sword. The most villainous man Wazo was slain by a young man whom he had bullied. One summer night, the young 19-year-old man stabbed him to death with a Japanese sword when Wazo flopped down on his knees, wrapped in his mosquito net, whose hangers had been cut off by the murderer while Wazo was fast asleep. The young man was arrested for murder and sent to the house of detention in Fukuoka later. However, Wazo's implacable ghost haunted his cell every night and tortured him. He writhed in agony at night, crying many times that Wazo came to him. He went insane and died while pending trial after wasting away day by day.
Wazo reportedly died after he cried that he would haunt the young man to death, glaring at him in his death throes when he was stabbed in his mosquito net. However, I cannot clearly say if the young man died of neurosis or if Wazo's ghost haunted him to death, because I heard the above story from some old people.


Translation Assisted by Mr. Nathan Johndro

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