He thought that the kimono should have belonged to a woman servant who had gotten slashed to death by her master of buke (a samurai family), and he therefore offered it to the family temple to mourn for the dead, thus resulting in recovery of his daughter.
これは武家に仕えていて手討ちに遭った女性の着物だろうと思い、菩提寺に着物を納めて弔ったところ、娘の病気も回復に至ったという。