A suture instrument that is inserted into a body and ejects an elongated anchor to which a suture thread that sutures a perforation is connected and which is placed on tissue, including a base that extends from a proximal end on a hand side to a remote end that is introduced to tissue and has flexibility; an anchor holding instrument that is disposed at the remote end of the base, is capable of housing a plurality of the anchors inside, and whose distal end that ejects the anchors is approximately pointed in the direction of the proximal end of the base; a tip position changing mechanism that is provided for changing the tip position of the anchor holding instrument and causes the anchor holding instrument to move in a direction that intersects with the axial line of the lengthwise direction of the base; and a position operation device that operates the tip position changing mechanism at the hand side and operates the tip position of the anchor holding instrument.