After her husband Juro died (there was no system of family registration at that time, so no distinct definition of marriage existed either, but Tora spent her life as Juro's wife), she visited the brothers' mother in the village of Soga before she climbed the Hakone to became a nun by Betto (superintendent) of Hakone gongen (sacred mountain).
夫、十郎（当時は戸籍などないので、明確な婚姻の定義は無いが虎は十郎の妻としてその生涯を送った）の死後、兄弟の母を曽我の里に訪ねたあと箱根に登り箱根権現の別当の手により出家する。