My reasoning: Chapter 8 is out on MDex earlier and Okiku is telling the story of a woman revealing her swollen face to her lover (?) and it turning out to be the face of a certain dead woman. I couldn’t find the names mentioned by Okiku
What I could find was those names are from an old movie called "The Ghost of Kasane", that is based on a ghost story. I went and watched it.
To make it real short: Toyoshiga's dad is a debt collector, Shinkichi's dad kills him because he did not want to pay the debt and dumps his body in the swamp. He was killed with a huge slash on the face. Toyoshiga's dad then places a curse. Years pass, Shinkichi falls in love with Ohisa, but she is set to marry someone else. Toyoshiga is interested in Shinkichi, after Shinkichi gives up on Ohisa, they start a romance, without knowing anything from the past.
Toyoshiga gets a cut on her face, it gets infected, she gets sick. While she is sick, Shinkichi starts an affair with Ohisa. Toyoshiga gets jealous and tries to kill Ohisa, during their fight, Toyo falls down the stairs and gets even worse. Shinkichi decides to run away with Ohisa. Toyoshiga places a curse on them and dies. While running away, they have to cross the swamp. Ohisa gets hurt and has to rest. The curse makes Shinkichi see Toyoshiga's disfigured face on Ohisa, he kills her, thinking it was his dead wife. Everyone dies.
So thats how it is on the movie, but we know those folk stories have a bunch of versions, so we don't know what version is used on the manga. But the disfigured woman is this Toyoshiga.
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