He is said to have persuaded and appeased the people rising up to call for tax reduction, and furthermore to have made a direct plea to the local governor to save the people when he was seventeen in 1827.
文政10年、17歳の時には、減租を求めて蜂起した民衆を説得して沈静させ、さらに代官に直訴し、民を救ったという。