Therefore, he searched for snake-dragons in a deep pool, looked for demons and monsters, his swordplay was unequaled and he was a god incarnate' (Ryuei fujo denkei [family record of Tokugawa shoguns, including shoguns' legal wife and concubines] and Gyokuyoki [biography of Kiyoyasu MATSUDAIRA's wife, Keyoin-dono]).
「故に淵川に入って蛇龍を捜し、山に入って鬼魅を索め、剣術絶倫、性化現の人」（柳営婦女伝系および玉輿記）。