Seeing this, Michikaze thought to himself, "It is I who am the fool. I happened to associate the frog struggling with all its might with my own circumstances, but I hadn't been making as much of an effort as the frog had," and this revelation is said to have spurred him on to work his fingers to the bone.
これを見た道風は「バカは自分である。蛙は一生懸命努力をして偶然を自分のものとしたのに、自分はそれほどの努力をしていない」と目が覚めるような思いをして、血を滲むほどの努力をするきっかけになったという。