It is said that the members of the Yagi family, not knowing what else to do, made every effort to get Oume's family in Nishijin to claim her body, and it is also said that she was buried as a muen botoke (a person who died leaving nobody to look after her grave).
困り果てた八木家が手を尽くして西陣のお梅の里へ引き取らせたとも、無縁仏として葬ったともいう。