Ignoring a ban, Takanori loses a woman; Slitting her belly, Princess Fuse looses eight dog children

This chapter examines how Yatsufusa took Princess Fuse to Mount To, which is the highest mountain in the province of Awa, along with its brother, Iyo Peak. Princess Fuse had firmly refused the company of an escort but both Yoshizane's and Isarago's hearts were uneasy for her safety on the road, and so in secret they sent Amasaki Jōrō Terutake, with several mighty warriors, “to watch her and then report, hiding as necessary.” However, Terutake drowned in a river on the way to Mount To. Isarago, however, found it more difficult to forget about Princess Fuse with every passing day. Every month she would pretend to send her old women on a visit in her stead to the Cave of the Ascetic, sending them instead in secret to Mount To in search of her daughter's whereabouts, but none possessed the courage to go beyond that mountain torrent that had carried Amasaki Terutake away. The chapter then looks at how Kanamari Daisuke Takanori vowed to climb the mountain, kill the dog Yatsufusa, and return to Takita with the princess.