The scene depicts the builder of Edo Castle, caught in a downpour in the country, asking at a peasant's cottage for a straw raincoat (mino) and being offered roses instead. Affronted by this, he turned to leave, but remembered the lines of an old poem, "Although the yamabuki has numerous petals, I lament it has no mino," a play on the word mino which means both 'seeds' and 'raincoat' - the woman, having no raincoat, offered roses instead.