The next year Princess Fuse showed signs of pregnancy, and a child hermit whom she encountered in the mountain told her that Yatsufusa had been cursed by Tamazusa, that Tamazusa's curse had been cleared up by the merit of the sutras but that Princess got pregnant with Yatsufusa's ki (essence, phenomenon).
翌年、伏姫に懐妊のしるしがあらわれ、山中で出会った仙童から八房が玉梓の呪詛を負っていたこと、読経の功徳によりその怨念は解消されたものの、八房の気を受けて種子を宿したことが告げられる。