There is a folktale at Senbon Shaka-do temple (formal name is Daihoon-ji Temple) that Okame, a wife of a master carpenter who built the main hall of the temple, helped her husband but after that she killed herself to save her husband's honor.
京都の千本釈迦堂（大報恩寺）には本堂を建てた大工の棟梁を助けたうえ命を絶った妻のおかめの伝説がある。