The woodcutter had mentioned the trampled grass and bamboo leaves in his story saying that it looked like there had been a fight. On top of that, Tajomaru mentions that he killed the victim during a sword fight. This matches the wound the woodcutter said he saw on the body [a sword wound]. There was also the piece of rope that the woodcutter had seen that the murderer said he used to tie his victim up with. Additionally, Tajomaru also gives a plausible reason why he killed the victim, namely his desire for the victim's spouse. Eventually, he even admits to the murder himself, exposing himself to punishment and degradation of his honor for the crime. There is no reason for him to do this in the story other than he is responsible for the murder. Other statements made by the victim's wife as well as by the victim herself through a medium included parts that did not match the lumberjack's testimony. In his wife's account, she claimed that she stabbed her husband in the chest with her small sword, but that this wound did not create the wound that caused it..