Kiyohime

[8] The "Anchin-Kiyohime" legend can be summarized as follows:[4][11] The legend, connected with the founding of the Dōjō-ji temple in Kii Province (modern-day Wakayama Prefecture), relates how a priest named Anchin from Shirakawa in Ōshū province (present-day Shirakawa, Fukushima) making pilgrimage to the Kumano Shrine in southern Kii, lodged at the home of a shōji [ja] (庄司) (steward of a shōen manor) of Manago/Masago (真那古/真砂), where the manor official's daughter Kiyohime fell in love with the young monk.

After her death, a great serpent emerged from her bedchamber and it pursued the monk before killing him in a bell in the Dōjō-ji temple where he had hidden.

[21] The old version also ends with an epilogue: Years later the monk appeared in a dream of a senior priest at this temple (Dōjō-ji), begging him to copy a chapter of the Lotus Sutra to release him and the serpent from their suffering in their rebirths, which was duly done and they were both reborn in separate heavens.

[27] The name Kiyohime did not appear until the 18th century, in the narrative of a joruri (ballad drama) titled Dojo-ji genzai uroko (道成寺現在蛇鱗, The Snake Scales of Dojoji, A Modern Version) that was first performed in 1742.

[29] In this version, the woman in the tale was the daughter-in-law of the owner of a home in Manago in the Muro district named Steward of Seiji[30] or Shōji Kiyotsugu.

[31] Seiji (清次) or Kiyotsugu are variant readings of the same characters,[27] and while "Shōji" is construable as a surname, it is also the title/position of a steward of the shōen manor, as already discussed.