As Kobungo went out to mediate a fight among his fellows and Bungobe was summoned by shokan (an officer governing shoen - manor), only Kobungo's sister Nui and her little son Daihachi were left to hold the fort at Konaya's.
小文吾は仲間の喧嘩の仲裁、文五兵衛は荘官に呼ばれ、古那屋の留守を守るは小文吾の妹沼藺とその幼子大八のみ。