When Rensho asks them who was playing the flute, one of them tells him about the unfortunate history of the flute and asks Rensho to give ten Buddhist invocations.
蓮生が男らに誰が笛を吹いていたのかと尋ねると、男らの一人が笛にまつわる因縁について語り、十念を授けて欲しいと言う。