Shunkan, who was alone in Kikaiga-shima Island because of Kiyomori's continuing anger towards him, was visited after a few years by his pupil Ario who came all the way from Kyoto to see him; but Shunkan starved himself to death while in Ario's care.
清盛の怒りが解けず、鬼界が島に一人残された俊寛は、数年後に都から、はるばる訪ねて来た弟子の有王の世話をうけながら、自ら絶食して生命を絶った。