Iti is said that Sutematsu, his wife, wrote a letter to her friend complaining, 'lately my husband is becoming fatter and fatter, and I am becoming thinner and thinner.'
妻の捨松は友人への手紙で「主人は最近ますます太り、私はますますやせ細っています。」と愚痴をこぼしていたという。