Talk:The Weathered Head at Onigashima/@comment-4698889-20151204224549

It only dawned on me now how great this song is. The Tailor song is meant to play up the horror. But this song is meant to discuss how in the end, Kayo was pitiful. The song shifts from the private perspective of Kayo to the public perspective - no one knew why she killed those people. But she was good at making kimono. And she was executed because the hysteria probably needed to come to an end. And with Kayo's head on display, people are reminded every day of that incident. In Edo Japan they had no writing system, so everything's passed on by word of mouth. That's why Gakusha's important; as a traveling monk, he's bound to be the one to share Kayo's story across Jakoku.