He was such a short-tempered person that when he was working on his next script, but nagged by his wife who was saying they had no money to buy rice, and forced to go out with a mosquito net to pawn it for rice, his neighbor asked him looking at his stern face 'What's the matter?'--He answered with still stern face 'I'm going to do killing.', jargon for pawning, to astonish the neighbor.
癇癖の強い性格で、執筆中に女房から米を買う金がないと再三言われやむなく蚊帳を質に入れようと出かけたが、気難しい顔をしていたので近所の人に「どうした」と聞かれ「はい、殺しに行きます（質に入れるの隠語）」と答えて相手を驚かせている。