Tozama Daimyo. Tozama daimyo were daimyo who had not been vassals of Ieyasu in 1600 and their descendants. Many of them, especially the greater ones, had close ties with the shogunate, including marriage ties, but they did not take part in the bureaucracy or concern themselves with national affairs, at least publicly.
Besides the Tell â Tale Heart, I also have read Ligeia and I too have watched the movie. The Tell â Tale Heart is about the narrator whom hates the old man eyes. Evil Eye, he said. The old man has a vulture eye â a pale blue eye, with a film over it.
I am assuming that is how it was, anyway. When I read all of that, my first impression was that the husband is possessed by a demon, and the demon's anger caused his host's eyes to turn black like that. My friend thought so, too, although we don't believe that can happen physiologically, so it must be supernaturally.