Oiwa's shrine says she and her adopted-heir husband restored the Tamiya fortunes; the 1825 play has him betray her for a richer match

Kind 2, with the shrine's record. In 1827 the Oiwa Inari Tamiya shrine submitted a history to the shogunate. It says Oiwa was a daughter of the Tamiya family who married Iemon, a man adopted into the family, and that their devotion to the household's Inari shrine restored the family's fortunes. She is reported to have died in 1636^†. Two years before that filing, in 1825, Tsuruya Nanboku IV staged Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan. In the play, Tamiya Iemon, a disgraced samurai, kills Oiwa's father after he refuses their marriage. Iemon falls for Ume, granddaughter of a neighbour, Kihei. Kihei sends Oiwa poison disguised as medicine, and she is disfigured. Iemon kills her and his servant Kohei, claims he caught them in adultery and dumps the bodies in the river. On his wedding night he mistakes Ume and Kihei for ghosts and kills them. Oiwa's ghost pursues him. The play made Oiwa Japan's best-known ghost. The shrine denies that Iemon poisoned her. Cast and crew of each new production visit the shrine to pray before opening; by custom the actor playing Iemon does not go. Wikipedia places her grave at Myogyo-ji temple in Sugamo.