Later I heard that my older brother, who was studying at the military academy, was hospitalized at Eiju Hospital due to acute pneumonia and that there was little hope of his recovery, and therefore my father went out to pray to god, which was my older brother's guardian god, for seven days.
後で聞けば士官学校入校中の兄が急性肺炎で衛戍病院に入院中の所到底快復の見込みがないとの通知があったので、父が七日間、兄の氏神である神様に願掛けに出たのであった。