Uruma no Okina tells him what it was like there amid the turmoil after Katsushiro left, that Miyagi had bravely waited alone for him but the autumn passed and she died on the tenth day of August in the following year, and that Uruma no Okina performed a memorial service for the dead; then he advises Katsushiro to hold a memorial service for her.
漆間の翁は、勝四郎がいなくなったあとの戦乱で乱れたこの土地の様子、宮木が気丈にもひとりで待っていたが、約束の秋を過ぎて次の年の八月十日に死んだこと、漆間の翁が弔ったことを語り、勝四郎にも弔いをすすめた。