Munetoshi watched in shocked terror. Only then did he fully understand the depth of his indiscresion. He climbed up to an area called Hikida and there he ended his pitiful life.

Afterwards, people from the area would come and mourn for Munetoshi and bid him well in the afterlife, but the Gendaiyu gravestone did a mysterious thing. The gravestone would always lean towards the Banryu valley. No matter how many times people corrected it, it always seemed to lean towards the valley. Even now, the gravestone can be seen leaning towards the gorge, as if it was fixing its invisible eyes down the valley ravine. Beautiful Ayame iris were known to bloom in that region, so the area around the grave became a mound of iris they called the Ayame mound.

The tree that the two women's hair got caught in was named "Kamikake no Matsu" or "The Tree of Hanging Hair," and the pool at the bottom of the ravine that they pungled to their deaths in was named "Kagamibuchi" or "The Mirrored Abyss." In the bottomless depths of the abyss the surging waves of the two woman dragons can be seen whipping around in endless fury. It is said that late at night on the mountain paths around the ravine you can hear the sounds of the dragons in the distance and a woman shrieking throughout the night.

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