To make the story better understood by the audience, a scene to make the relationships between the characters on the danmari stage clear is provided for after the main curtain is closed.This scene is called "danmari-hodoki" (literaly, unraveling the danmari).
観客にわかりやすいよう、後の幕でだんまりに出た人物の人間関係が明らかになる場面が用意されており、これを「だんまりほどき」という。