This chapter opens with the arrival of a villager named Takeharu Motomura, who tells the audience that he has come to offer an offering to the gods of the mountain. He explains that the village is in dire need of a bountiful harvest, and he has been sent by the gods as an offering. He asks the villagers to send a girl to offer the harvest to the god, but the villagers refuse, saying that all the women are already married. The villager, however, refuses to listen to the man's pleas, insisting that he must stay in the village. He tells the villager that he will make the yard of the house more pleasant for him to look at, and then he leaves.