When Chobei, who was so ashamed, but reformed, was about to cross Azuma-bashi Bridge, he ran into a man who was about to fall off the bridge to drown himself.
情けない思い、しかし改心しきった長兵衛が、帰り道に吾妻橋にさしかかると、身投げをしようとしている男にでくわす。