He refused all the doctors and medicine delivered from the Imperial Court and samurai, and on January 22, 1347 he tried to write his final poem with his left hand in vain, threw away the brush in anger splashing the ink around, and passed away.
朝廷や武家が派遣した医師や薬をすべて断り、12月2日遺偈を左手で書こうとしたが、うまく字にならず、怒って筆を投げつけ、周囲が墨だらけになる中、示寂した。