Feeling as if it were a dream,' and with tears running down her cheeks, Hoshi invited Shigehira into her house, where Shigehira told her what happened to him after he was caught by the enemy, and bit off a wisp of his forelock to hand it to her as a keepsake, saying that he would have preferred to shave his hair to become a priest.
輔子は「夢かうつつ（現実）か」と涙を流して招きいれ、重衡はこれまでのことを物語りして、出家して髪を残したいがそれも叶わないのでと額に垂れた髪をひと房噛み切って輔子に渡し形見とした。