Episode Title:
Katabira Crossroads.
Episode Description:
Momosuke hears the legend of the Katabira Crossroads where some women have died there. He is told by Sajiro Ogata and Fushimiya that it first happened when the nobleman Genba Sasayama lost his wife to the spirit that lurks there. However, it would turn out that Genba Sasayama, the husband of the woman who first started the rumor, was driven to murder the other women of similar appearance to his wife to commit acts of Necrophilia until the body would rot and he would then dump them at the crossroads. This entire process had been repeating since he first pilfered his dead wife from her casket to again have sex with her, only to come to his senses upon decay, repeating the process indefinitely. Though the Ongyo attempted to punish Genba Sasayama by summoning the spirits of his victims, the defiant nobleman refused to accept of doing anything wrong, as he was perpetually in love with his wife, dead or alive, and took his own life when Mataichi tried to commit him to the next world as a result. Before the group departs, Nagamimi places the corpse of a puppet murderer near Genba's corpse to make it look like that he avenged his wife's death at the cost of his own life when Sajiro Ogata arrives.
