Many samurai in formal robes walking on veranda and bordering tatami. In the foreground 3 samurai attend Suketsune (not pictured here but in the panel to the left), 2 are seated on their heals, one holding a sword, and a third bows down while in his right hand he holds up a short sword to his master. | Text: narrative insert tells of the first meeting between the young boy Hakoomaru and the target of his vengeance, the warrior general Kudo Ichiro Suketsune, the cousin and murderer of Hakoomaru's father.