Local people there did not like Munemori at the beginning, but they gradually opened up to him after seeing him playing with children and feeling his human kindness, which normal samurai were lacking.
地元の領民は、宗盛を始めは快く思っていなかったが、子供と戯れるなど、普通の武士には欠けている人間的な情愛を感じて徐々に心を許したという。