It is also recorded that he made suma-goto, which is single-string zither, with blocks of wood that had drifted ashore in order to distract himself from his loneliness during his stay in Suma.
また須磨滞在時に寂しさを紛らわすために浜辺に流れ着いた木片から一弦琴、須磨琴を製作したとも伝えられている。