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Inktober #17

Kuchisake-onna ("slit-mouthed woman") is a figure appearing in Japanese ghost stories, possibly dating back to the Edo period. She is a woman who was mutilated by her husband, and returns as a malicious spirit. Although some stories describe her as a former patient of a mental asylum, a more common story describes that in the Heian period, her husband found out that she was having an affair with another samurai. He used a sword to cut her mouth from ear to ear and asked, "Who will think you are beautiful now?"
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According to the legend, she covers her mouth with a cloth mask, a fan, or a scarf. The woman will ask a potential victim "Am I pretty?" If he answers yes, she will remove her mask and ask him again in a girly voice. If he answers yes or screams, she will slash him from ear to ear so that he resembles her. If he answers no, she will walk away, only to follow her victim home and brutally murder him that night.

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Description
Inktober #17

Kuchisake-onna ("slit-mouthed woman") is a figure appearing in Japanese ghost stories, possibly dating back to the Edo period. She is a woman who was mutilated by her husband, and returns as a malicious spirit. Although some stories describe her as a former patient of a mental asylum, a more common story describes that in the Heian period, her husband found out that she was having an affair with another samurai. He used a sword to cut her mouth from ear to ear and asked, "Who will think you are beautiful now?"
.
According to the legend, she covers her mouth with a cloth mask, a fan, or a scarf. The woman will ask a potential victim "Am I pretty?" If he answers yes, she will remove her mask and ask him again in a girly voice. If he answers yes or screams, she will slash him from ear to ear so that he resembles her. If he answers no, she will walk away, only to follow her victim home and brutally murder him that night.

Feel free to check out my other locations:
Facebook: Art by Will
Instagram: @artXWill
Society6: Purchase Prints
Note: New Account - My other artworks can be added on request.