Merchant's Daughter
Jan 11, 2010 16:20:17 GMT -5
Post by Yaoya Oshichi on Jan 11, 2010 16:20:17 GMT -5
Full Name: Yaoya Oshichi
Fandom: POTO, original, other (specify)? Japanese history/legend.
Age: 16
Height: 5'
Weight: 100lbs
Build: Delicate as a flower
Hair: Waist-length, raven black
Eyes: Dark brown
Nationality: Japanese
Job: Daughter of a vegetable store owner, she helped her father where she could.
Personality: Oshichi is a sweet-tempered, quiet girl, but one given to flights of extreme fancy that oftentimes get her into trouble. Though not unintelligent, she lets herself be ruled by her emotions more than anything else, and can be quite impulsive.
Life Story (as much as you want us to know): Oshichi was born and raised in the district of Hongô in Edo, in the 17th century in Japan. She mostly lived a simple live, helping her father with his vegetable store and keeping house for her mother, who was quite ill and bed-ridden.
In 1681, at age 16, Oshichi fell in love with a young priest whom she met at his temple while seeking shelter from a large fire. Hoping to see him again, she set fire in 1682 to her own home, causing a massive blaze that destroyed a huge section of Edo. She was arrested, trialed and condemned to be executed for arson. Somehow, through sheer wit and determination, she managed to escape imprisonment and fled from Edo--and ultimately, from Japan. Haunted by the horror she had not meant to unleash, Oshichi continued fleeing, not stopping until she'd reached a distant and foreign land: France.
Here in Paris, she once agains helps out at a store, this time working for a merchant who specializes in fruits and exotic spices. She's oftentimes treated like a second-class citizen, being a foreigner (and a woman), but Oshichi takes in stride and in fact sees it as just, considering what she had done.
Though her days are quiet, she is still haunted by the spectre of a great blaze, and the love that had sparked it...
((In real life, she was burnt alive to pay for her crime. Her grave is located in a temple in the district of Hakusan (Bunkyô-ku, Tôkyô). Yaoya Oshichi became a legend and a leading character in several Kabuki plays. I kinda got inspired when reading about her and created a story around her history.))
Fandom: POTO, original, other (specify)? Japanese history/legend.
Age: 16
Height: 5'
Weight: 100lbs
Build: Delicate as a flower
Hair: Waist-length, raven black
Eyes: Dark brown
Nationality: Japanese
Job: Daughter of a vegetable store owner, she helped her father where she could.
Personality: Oshichi is a sweet-tempered, quiet girl, but one given to flights of extreme fancy that oftentimes get her into trouble. Though not unintelligent, she lets herself be ruled by her emotions more than anything else, and can be quite impulsive.
Life Story (as much as you want us to know): Oshichi was born and raised in the district of Hongô in Edo, in the 17th century in Japan. She mostly lived a simple live, helping her father with his vegetable store and keeping house for her mother, who was quite ill and bed-ridden.
In 1681, at age 16, Oshichi fell in love with a young priest whom she met at his temple while seeking shelter from a large fire. Hoping to see him again, she set fire in 1682 to her own home, causing a massive blaze that destroyed a huge section of Edo. She was arrested, trialed and condemned to be executed for arson. Somehow, through sheer wit and determination, she managed to escape imprisonment and fled from Edo--and ultimately, from Japan. Haunted by the horror she had not meant to unleash, Oshichi continued fleeing, not stopping until she'd reached a distant and foreign land: France.
Here in Paris, she once agains helps out at a store, this time working for a merchant who specializes in fruits and exotic spices. She's oftentimes treated like a second-class citizen, being a foreigner (and a woman), but Oshichi takes in stride and in fact sees it as just, considering what she had done.
Though her days are quiet, she is still haunted by the spectre of a great blaze, and the love that had sparked it...
((In real life, she was burnt alive to pay for her crime. Her grave is located in a temple in the district of Hakusan (Bunkyô-ku, Tôkyô). Yaoya Oshichi became a legend and a leading character in several Kabuki plays. I kinda got inspired when reading about her and created a story around her history.))