Amusing anecdotes are told about him as follows: He talked about women with his friends, He ate a deep-fried dragonfly, He pressed on a notebook his own made stamp with a design of a container of mosquito repellent stick.
「帚木(源氏物語)」をした、トンボを油で揚げて食べた、蚊取り線香の容器型のスタンプを作ってノートに押したなどの逸話も伝わっている。