Although desparately stopped by Sangoro, a rickshaw man and tenement residents who had rushed in at the noise and furthermore by HAGIHARA who has come to see what was happening, Kobei, holding his own child, jumps into the Okawa river behind his house.
騒ぎを聞いて駆け付けた車夫三五郎や長屋の人たち、さらに様子を見に来た萩原が必死に止めるのを聞かず、幸兵衛は我が子を抱えて裏の大川に投身する。