The latter half begins with her parting with Sukemori, who was fleeing from Kyoto with his clan in July and August 1183, and describes her days of being solely immersed in reminiscences of Sukemori after he was sent to the ocean's bottom at the battle of Dannoura following the fall of the Taira family
後半は寿永2年（1183年）7月(旧暦)、一門と共に都落ちする資盛との別離に始まり、平家の滅亡に殉じて資盛が壇ノ浦の戦いの海の藻屑と消えたのち、ひたすらその追憶に生きた日々を描く。