This samurai is Soemon AKANA, a scholar of military science, and he tells the story that he was on his way home from Omi Province, where Ujitsuna SASAKI lives, because he had heard that his old master Kamonnosuke ENYA, who was in his hometown Izumo Province, had been defeated by Tsunehisa AMAKO.
この武士は、赤穴宗右衛門という軍学者で、佐々木氏綱のいる近江国から、故郷出雲国での主、塩冶掃部介が尼子経久に討たれたことを聞いて、急ぎ帰るところだった、と、これまでの経緯を語った。