Mitsumura regretted his brother's cowardice, lamented over the fall of the Miura clan and parting from his wife and children, showed his guts by cutting his face with a knife so that people wouldn't recognize, and then killed himself along with the rest members of the clan (Battle of Hoji).
光村は兄の不甲斐なさを悔やみ、三浦家の滅亡と妻子との別れを嘆きながら、最後まで意地を見せ、判別できないように顔中を刀で切り刻んで一族と共に自害した（宝治合戦）。