The Ejima Ikushima jiken was the most significant scandal in the Ōoku, the shogun`s harem, during the Edo period of the history of Japan. ==Incident== On the twelfth day of the first month of the fourth year of the Shōtoku era (February 26, 1714 by the Western calendar), Ejima, a high-ranking lady in the Ōoku, visited the grave of the late sho....