Ejima (1681-1741), senior lady-in-waiting in the Edo Shogunate’s Ooku, served Lady Gekkoin, mother of the 7th shogun Tokugawa Ietsugu. On January 12, 1714, returning from a memorial visit to Zojo-ji on Gekkoin’s behalf, she watched a kabuki performance starring Ikushima Shingoro at Yamamura-za theater and broke Ooku curfew at the after-banquet. The “Ejima-Ikushima Affair” was seized upon by the shogunate’s fudai faction to crush the Gekkoin/Manabe-Arai faction. Over 1,500 people were punished: Ikushima exiled to Mikurajima, the Yamamura theater closed, Ejima’s brother forced to commit seppuku. Ejima herself, initially sentenced to death, was instead confined for life to Takato Domain in Shinano (Nagano), where she lived 27 more years until her death at age 61. The reconstructed Ejima Confinement House and her grave at Renge-ji preserve her memory.