Mitsuhide dejectedly comes back home where his wife Satsuki, his retainer Kunitsugu YASUDA (sometimes substituted with Tajima SHIHOTEN), and the renga poet Joha, are all worrying about him.
妻の皐月と家臣の安田国継（四方天但馬の場合もあり）が連歌師紹巴とともに光秀の身を案じているところへ、光秀がしおしおと帰ってくる。