Kumataro's common-law wife, Onui was found to have been in an affair with Torajiro MATSUNAGA, a younger brother of an influential man in the village, Denjiro MATSUNAGA.
熊太郎の内縁の妻おぬいが、村の顔役の松永傳次郎の弟、松永寅次郎と密通していた事が発覚。