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*''Date: [[1682]]/12/28''
*''Other Names'': 天和の大火 ''(Tenna no taika)''
*''Japanese'': お七火事 ''(Oshichi kaji)''
The Great Oshichi Fire of [[1682]] was a disaster which began when a young woman known as Yaoya Oshichi started a fire in order to enable her to meet with her lover again; the fire spread and in the end destroyed a large section of downtown [[Edo]].
Oshichi, 17, was sentenced to public execution.
But dramatized versions of her story very soon came to be told by street musicians and storytellers. [[Ihara Saikaku]] published a version of her story, entitled ''Yaoya Monogatari'' ("The Tale of Yaoya") in [[1686]], and a [[kabuki]] production called ''[[Oshichi Utasaiban]]'' came to be performed in Osaka.
The shogunate soon afterwards (in 1686) issued an ordinance against rumors, songs, published materials, and the like relating to recent events.
==References==
*Ikegami, Eiko. ''Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture''. Cambridge University Press, 2005. pp307-308.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Events and Incidents]]
*''Other Names'': 天和の大火 ''(Tenna no taika)''
*''Japanese'': お七火事 ''(Oshichi kaji)''
The Great Oshichi Fire of [[1682]] was a disaster which began when a young woman known as Yaoya Oshichi started a fire in order to enable her to meet with her lover again; the fire spread and in the end destroyed a large section of downtown [[Edo]].
Oshichi, 17, was sentenced to public execution.
But dramatized versions of her story very soon came to be told by street musicians and storytellers. [[Ihara Saikaku]] published a version of her story, entitled ''Yaoya Monogatari'' ("The Tale of Yaoya") in [[1686]], and a [[kabuki]] production called ''[[Oshichi Utasaiban]]'' came to be performed in Osaka.
The shogunate soon afterwards (in 1686) issued an ordinance against rumors, songs, published materials, and the like relating to recent events.
==References==
*Ikegami, Eiko. ''Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture''. Cambridge University Press, 2005. pp307-308.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Events and Incidents]]