After 70 years from the raid in 1774, an old woman named Myoken-ni who announced herself to be as Yasubei HORIBE's wife built a hermitage in the Sengaku-ji Temple and had a reminiscent talk about the Ronin of Ako, which created a sensation in Edo.
討ち入りから70年後の安永3年（1774年）堀部安兵衛の妻を名乗る妙海尼という老女が泉岳寺に庵を結んで、赤穂浪士の昔語りを始めて、江戸で評判になった。