On the way back to Yashima, although Kozaisho heard that her husband had been killed, she waited helplessly for his return to the fleet, thinking it must have been wrong and there was a possibility that he would return alive.
屋島へ向かう平家の船団の中で小宰相は、夫が討たれたとは聞いてはいたが、何かの間違いであろうと、生きて帰ることもあるかもしれないと心細く夫の帰りを待ち続けていた。