Japan’s Onryō Spirits Inhabit a Purgatory of Revenge and Cosmic Rage

A DEAD WOMAN, HER FACE disfigured by poisoned makeup, returns to take revenge on the husband who murdered her. A samurai is beheaded in a failed rebellion, his head put on display in a town square, where it bellows for the return of his body. In the wake of a nobleman’s exile and death, pestilence and...