Jizo Bosatsu said 'Your suffering is caused the hatred you had for another during your previous life in which you created a cursed effigy and drove hassun-kugi (approximately 24 cm long nail) into the hands' before withdrawing the nails from the effigy's hands and showing them to Dorin.
地蔵菩薩は「お前の苦しみの原因は、前世において人をうらみ、呪いの人形（ひとがた）を作ってその手に八寸釘を打ち込んだことにある」と告げ、呪いの人形から抜き取った八寸釘を道林に示して見せた。