When Otaka disguised himself as a merchant selling bamboo sticks for house cleaning in order to spy on the Kira residence the night before the raid, he bumped into Kikaku TAKARAI in Ryogokubashi.
討ち入りの前夜、大高は煤払竹売に変装して吉良屋敷を探索していたが、両国橋で宝井其角と出会った。