お初が足先で「死ぬ覚悟があるか」と問い、徳兵衛はお初の足を自分の喉に当てて死の合意を示した

With the swindled money gone and accused as a swindler, Tokubei resolved that there was no way to prove his innocence but through death. Slipping into the Temmaya under cover of night, he hid under the floorboards of the veranda. Listening to Kuheiji badmouthing Tokubei, Ohatsu asked Tokubei under the floorboards if he was prepared to die by touching him with her foot, and Tokubei pressed her foot to his throat, exchanging a firm pact of suicide.