Yohei attends the Taiya (services held the night before a Buddhist funeral) held for Okichi as if nothing had happened, but the movement of rats in the ceiling cause a blood-stained deed to fall.
お吉の三十五日の逮夜の供養に与兵衛は何食わぬ顔で列席していたが、天井でネズミが荒れて血潮を拭った古証文をおとす。