「ああ、つらい、つらい。もう女(おんな)なんぞに生まれは(うまれは)しませんよ」

Wasting away by the beach in Zushi, Namiko fell into deep despair amidst her torn love and the pain of her illness. One day, spitting bloody phlegm on her sickbed, she lamented with bitter tears, 'Oh, it is painful, painful. I will never be born as a woman again.' This line, as the cry of Japanese women of that era weeping under the oppression of the family system, touched the hearts of the public and became widely known.