The Princess Terute was banished along Sagami-gawa River and then saved by Murakimi Dayu (performer Murakimi), but she was maltreated by the old woman of the house, and although she escaped the hardship under the protection of Senju Kannon (thousand-armed Buddhist deity of mercy), she was sold off to a human trafficker and then accepted in a general store in Aobaka, Mino Province, where she ended up being abused.
照手姫は相模川に流され、村君太夫に救われるが、姥の虐待を受けるが千手観音の加護で難を逃れたものの人買いに売り飛ばされ、美濃国青墓の万屋にもらわれ、こき使われる。