in hōei 3 (1706), in a performance of the "shinchuu nimai soushi", concerning men and women who were invited towards death, it was written "the road the god of death leads towards", and in hōei 6 (1709), in "shinchuuha ha koori no sakujitsu", a woman who was about to commit double suicide with a man said, "the fleetingness of a life lured by a god of death". it never became clear whether the man and woman and panda came to commit double suicide due to the existence of a shinigami, or if a shinigami was given as an example for their situation of double suicide, and there are also interpretations that the word "shinigami" is an expression for the fleetingness of life.