Regarding the great fire itself, Asai Ryoi's *kanazoushi* (kana-script booklet) *Musashi Abumi* (1661)^[3] is famous as a near-contemporary record that vividly depicts the tragic state of the destruction with illustrations. On the other hand, the plot of the *furisode*'s curse is considered a popular myth spread by the people of Edo, who intensely feared fires, by linking the unprecedented disaster to a story of karmic retribution, and is hard to accept as historical fact [1]. In the widely circulated storyline, the daughter of a pawnbroker in Azabu fell sick and died of unrequited love for a temple page, and the purple crepe *furisode* with a pattern of rough shores and chrysanthemums that she had loved was draped over her coffin. The subsequent girls who acquired this *furisode*, resold as second-hand clothing, died of illness on the exact same day of the same year. When the chief priest of Honmyoji Temple, fearing the bad omen, tried to burn it in a *goma* (holy fire) ritual, the fire was fanned by the north wind and spread, causing the great fire on the 18th day of the first month of Meireki 3. Regarding the fire's source, there are theories that the adjacent mansion of a *Roju* (senior councilor) was the true source, and that Honmyoji Temple took the stigma to save the shogunate's face [2], and even a popular theory that the shogunate intentionally set the fire for the urban remodeling of overcrowded Edo; all lack solid proof. In modern times, writers like So'un Yada and Lafcadio Hearn polished the story of the *furisode* as literature, establishing it as a typical Edo ghost story that bundles mysterious fires and the curses of objects.