While we can't speak to the existence of the supposed evil spirit, Sessho-seki (the "Killing Stone") truly did split in two in March 2022.

Zeami, (also called Kanze Motokiyo; 1363-1443) based his play "Nue" on the story of a 12th-century martial hero and poet named Minamoto no Yorimasa (1104-80), who was ordered by Emperor Konoe to ...

Revered for her beauty, she was killed after being part of a secret plot to kill Japan’s Emperor Konoe who reigned from 1107-1123. The stone before it split. Picture: Wikipedia Commons.

Revered for her beauty, she was killed after being part of a secret plot to kill Japan’s Emperor Konoe who reigned from 1107-1123. The stone before it split. Picture: Wikipedia Commons.

Emperor Hirohito appeared to be preparing for war against the United States about two months before Japan’s attack on ... Konoe proposed a Japan-U.S. summit in August the same year to break the ...

For more than 700 years until the modern period, members of the Konoe family have been prominent among the nobles of the Imperial Court. Descended from Fujiwara Iezane (ca. 1179-1242), whose own ...