After copying Buddhist sutras, a young noblewoman named Iratsume falls into a trance and walks to a remote temple where women are forbidden to enter, thereby stirring up the ghost of the executed Prince Otsu. Otsu's ghost mistakes Iratsume for one of her ancestors, a young woman who had come to watch his execution. The Prince saw this young woman's beautiful face as the last thing before he died, and his ghost cannot rest while her face haunts his sleep.