One of Japan’s most famous ghost stories, famed in the filmKwaidan and in the books of Lafcadio Hearn. But the story is older than each of these. Much older. Here is the original.
A married couple is disturbed by a ghostly woman at night. Both the
husband and wife claim they have no idea who the ghostly woman is, but
is one of them lying? Is the woman the husband’s dead lover–or the
wife’s?