There are two main versions — and several permutations — of the Japanese myth of Kiyo. And this is one of them…

Kiyo was a beautiful waitress in a tea-house on the Hidaka riverbank. Anchin was a handsome Buddhist priest. They fell in love.

Anchin ignored his vows and cavorted with Kiyo; but he eventually tired of her, and returned to his spiritual life in the Dojoji monastery.

The spurned Kiyo left the tea-house to study magic in the temple of Kompera. After years of dedication, she was able to transform herself into a dragon and she flew to Dojoji to exact her revenge.

Anchin hid under the monastery’s bell; but Kiyo exhaled roiling flames at the bell-tower and the priest was murdered, buried beneath liquid metal.