• Ghost Story of O-Tsuru •
There is a famous Ghost story in the Kuri Region of Wano Country involving a ghost of a woman named Tsurujo but better known by the people of Wano as O-Tsuru. There are 3 variations of the ghost story of O-Tsuru have an extremely wrongful and cruel treatment of a poor woman of lower class in common in Wano back in the day.
Okobore Town's Version
In Okobore Town, Tsurujo, better known by O-Tsuru, is a tea house maid in Okobore Town, located in the Kuri region of Wano. One day she was visited by a samurai named Holed'em. Holed'em wants to seduce the beautiful woman, but she rejects his advances. Holed'em uses a trick. He hides one of ten valuable Kuri region plates, that Tsuru kept at the tea house under the trust of Kuri's authorities, and threatens O-Tsuru to make public that she had stolen the plate unless she agrees to become his mistress. In her desperation O-Tsuru throws herself into a well located outside the tea house and drowns.
O-Tsuru's ghost comes out every night, wonders around Hold'em's property, while counting from one to nine and then breaks out into a terrible howling and sobbing. It is said that Holed'em goes insane everyday at night.
Different Versions of the Ghost Story of O-Tsuru
There are different versions of the ghost story of O-Tsuru. What they all have in common is the description of her ghost coming out of the well and counting from one to nine and then breaking out into a heart-rendering sobbing.
In another version, O-Tsuru was a terrible worker at the tea house who keeps breaking plates at the tea house. Her boss, Jack, who got fed up with her and is still killed by him, and her corpse is thrown into the tea house well.
In yet another version, a fellow tea maiden named Speed, breaks ten valuable Kuri region plates. To hide her guilt, she throws the broken plate into a well and accuses O-Tsuru of stealing it. In this version she is still killed by her master Jack for punishment and thrown into the tea house as well along with O-Tsuru.
There is also an alternate version for the end of the Holed'em story. To stop the nightly sobbing, a friend of Holed'em is hired, named Sheepshead. Who during the night waited by the tea house's well and after hearing O-Tsuru starting counting from one to nine, he is stepped forward and shouted "ten" loudly. From then on the ghost of O-Tsuru was never seen again.
The Kuri Castle Version
One version told by servants of Kuri Castle known as O-Tsuru's Well. In the Kuri Castle version, in the past long ago, O-Tsuru was once a servant of Kurozumi Orochi, a retainer who planned a plot against Lord Oden. O-Tsuru overheard the plot and reported it to her lover, a loyal samurai of Lord Oden named Kin'emon. The plot was averted.
When Orochi found out that O-Tsuru had been the cause for his failure, he decided to kill her. So he stole ten valuable Kuri Region plates from a tea house own by a wife of a samurai named Holed'em. He reported to Holed'em and stated that O-Tsuru stole the ten valuable dishes and broken all of it, and threw them down Kuri Castle's Well. Holed'em believed Orochi, and at night, she was caught by Holed'em and his samurai group, and tortured O-Tsuru to death and thrown her body into Kuri Castle's Well.
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When it comes it the location of the well that O-Tsuru was thrown in. Some people say O-Tsuru's Well located on Kuri Castle ground. Other say its the Okobore Tea House's Well.
The story is one of Wano Country's most famous ghost stories along with Monet The Bird Woman Of Wano. In Kuri there is a play based on the story called Kuri's Sarayashiki (Kuri's The Haunted Plate House) which tells the spooky tale of O-Tsuru. While there are many different versions of the story, they all centre around the death of a servant who returns as an onryo (vengeful ghost) to haunt those who mistreated and killed her.