WIFE.
Oh! I am ashamed. When I try to speak, tears come first and choke the words. I am going to tell you something I have never told you before. I am the sister of Kamada Masakiyo who fell at the Battle of Utsumi in the country of Noma. At the time when Tokiwa bore Ushiwaka, her third son, the lord her husband sent her this weapon as a charm-sword, and I was the messenger whom he charged to carry it. Oh were he in the world again;[53] then would our eyes no longer behold such misery. Oh sorrow, sorrow!
HATMAKER.
You say that you are the sister of Kamada Masakiyo?
WIFE.
I am.
HATMAKER.
How strange, how strange! I have lived with you all these years and months, and never knew till now. But are you sure that you recognize this weapon?
WIFE.
Yes; this was the sword they called Konnentō.