However, when megataki uchi (revenge oneself on the adulterer) was practiced, the fact that his wife had been unfaithful was exposed to the outside world, and some people thought that it only made a samurai lose face.
もっとも、妻敵討が行われると、本夫が寝取られたという事実を外部に明らかにする事となり、却って武士の面目が失われるという考え方もあった。