Episode 4

Once upon a time, the Empress Dowager lived in a mansion facing Gojo Street in the eastern part of Kyoto. There was a woman who lived in the opposite house to the west of the mansion.

The man had been meeting with the woman, although he knew it was undesirable. Around the tenth day of the New Year, the woman disappeared from the Gojo mansion, but he knew where she was by asking others.

However, since it was not a place that an ordinary person would be able to come and go, the man felt a pang of pain as his thoughts grew stronger.

The next year, when the plum blossoms were in full bloom, the man went to the house where the woman had lived, but he wept when he realized that the time he had spent with her was in the past.

The man lay in the house until after midnight and recited a Waka poem in remembrance of the previous year.

"Just as the moon is not the same old moon, spring is not the same old spring
Oh, only I am as I used to be"

and he left in tears when the night was becoming slightly brighter.

The woman is Empress Nijo, the wife of Emperor Seiwa, who disappeared from the western side of the house because she had entered the rear palace.

Episode 5

Once upon a time, there was a man. This man secretly visited a place near Gojo in the east. Because it was a secret place, he couldn't enter from the gate and used a broken part of the earth wall that children had trodden down. The owner of the house found out about the man's visits and put a guard on the path every night. The man couldn't meet the woman and could only return home. He wrote a Waka poem:

"I wish the guard of my secret path,
Would sleep, even if it’s just for a while every night"

The woman was deeply saddened by this Waka poem

Eventually, the owner of the house allowed the man to visit. It's said that this happened when the man was secretly visiting Empress Nijo, and her brothers guarded her when rumors spread in society.

Episode 6

There once was a man. After years and years of courting an unattainable woman, he finally stole her away and fled into the darkest night.
As he led the woman along the banks of a river called Akutagawa, she saw dewでゅーon the grass and asked him, "Hey, what's that?

They were far from their destination, and it was late at night. They did not know that this was the place where demons lived, but thunder was rumbling and it was raining heavily, so he pushed the woman into a dilapidated storehouse and the man took up a position in the doorway with his bow and arrow case on his back.
But inside the storehouse, the demon ate the woman in one bite. She screamed "Aaah!" but her screams were drowned out by the loud noise of the thunder.
When dawn finally broke, there was no sign of the woman who he had there. He cried and stomped his feet, but it was too late.

"When she asked me if those were pearls or what, I answered, "They are dewdrops.
I wished I had said "dew" and disappeared like the dew."

It should be noted that "eaten by demons" is a metaphor, and the woman was actually brought back by the woman's brother.