Daily Archives for 29 March 2014


March 29: Love is Like a Fire

On 29 March 1683, a young girl named Yaoya Oshichi was executed for the crime of arson. What is even more astonishing than the fact that she was only 16 is that she committed this crime because of love. On 28 December 1682, a huge fire started in Edo, Japan. Yaoya sought shelter from the […]