Tale 22 — The dead grandmother's ghosts
On the night the great-grandmother of the Sasaki family died, the mother and grandmother who were in the room for the wake saw the figure of the dead old woman walking in from the back door. She came wearing the same clothes she had worn while alive, touched the charcoal bucket by the hearth and made it turn, and as she moved toward the inner room, a daughter who had lost her mind cried, 'The grandmother has come,' startling everyone.
This is an English rendering of our short Japanese summary of the source tale — a summary translated from the Japanese, not a translation of the original text. The summary was drafted and translated with AI assistance, and names and numbers were checked against our records.