It is said that Yokobue, knowing Tokiyori's moving out, felt devastated and drowned herself in the Oi-gawa River or that she left home and lived the life of a Buddhist renunciate at Hokke-ji Temple in Nara.
それを知った横笛は、悲しみのあまり大堰川に身を沈めたとも、奈良・法華寺へ出家したとも伝えられる。