Kuchisake-Onnaera
A long time
ago, Kuchisake-Onnaera was one of the most beautiful women in all Japan.
Blessed with white skin like a snowflake, long black hair, slender and sensual
silhouette made her fall prey to the desire of many powerful men. Among them, there was one of the most respectable Samurai in the country, who did not hesitate to
make her his wife. He offered a big quantity of money to her parents and they
accepted, so they sold their only daughter.
The beauty
of Kuchisake attracted the attention of the sudden new living in her home, place
that she hated, the walls were painted with all the battles that samurais
won, scenes where thousands of people were dead, those massacres that decorated the
walls gave her nightmares almost every night, but the samurai didn't care about
it, he just cared about future missions.
This lack of
attention from her husband created different
Because of these events, rumors appeared, and they do not
remain just in the mouth of the servitude, but also they ran from mouth to mouth,
until by logic, it came to her husband’s ears. who upon finding out, in a fit
of courage and jealousy planned a trap for Kuchisake to discover the truthfulness of the rumors.
One morning, he prepared as if he was going to a long mission, but instead, he was hidden by
some of his subjects right in his own house.
Some days
passed, and Kuchisake felt her bed cold and empty, she didn't want to tolerate
the loneliness anymore and without thinking it twice, that same night, she sent
for a handsome young man she had seen weeks ago cutting some bonsai from the
garden. She seduced him and the young man could not resist the beauty of the
woman.
The night was stormy and the samurai entered the house, the same way a deep mist was silently sneaking through the windows, and when finally the Samurai saw that scene he was
disturbed, filled with uncontrolled rage. His eyes did not deceive him, what he
saw was his wife in other man’s arms.
Without any feeling of regret, he drew
his katana and with one blow slit the young man who fell into Kuchisake’s womb
bleeding to death, with a second blow, disfigured her face with sharp cuts in
his mouth.
- "Do
you think you’re beautiful?"... tell me: Do you think
Kuchisake-Onna
paid a high price for her infidelity, her husband confronted her and injuring
her feminine ego proceeded to perform a deep and notorious wound on her face.
The deep wound caused the death of Kuchisake-Onna, who died before the rabid
and irrational gaze of her husband, who could never forgive her betrayal, but
why, seeing that he had caused her death he began to feel guilty, for all that
he should face, as a result of his actions.
By María Camila Pinzón, Step 10
