"azuma, azuma, ya!" (oh! my wife, my wife!) and to this day there is a district in tokio called azuma, which commemorates the words of prince yamato take, and the place where his faithful wife leapt into the sea to save him is still pointed out. so, though in life the princess ototachibana was unhappy, history keeps her memory green, and the story of her unselfishness and heroic death will never pass away.