The deserted wife in Echizen Province visited Najio going a long way, longing for Yaemon, but the people in the village never allowed her to come in because they were afraid that Yaemon would leave and the paper manufacturing industry which had just started with great difficulty would collapse.
越前に残された妻は、弥右衛門を慕ってはるばる名塩を訪れてきたが、村人たちは弥右衛門に今去られては、せっかく始まった紙業が崩れてしまうのを恐れて妻を村に入れなかった。