The 'temple gate' scene in Kabuki, "Kinmon Gosan no Kiri (Sanmon Gosan no Kiri)" (The Temple Gate and the Paulownia Crest), is a famous scene in which he takes a flamboyant pose with a tobacco pipe in one hand and says, 'What a glorious view, what a glorious view, the scenery of spring is worth its weight in gold, how small that is, how small that is,' and he reads a poem as a part of his line in the temple gate scene, 'Although there maybe an end to ISHIKAWA and sand on the beach, there is no end to the seeds of robbers in this world (said to be his poem at his death)' as he is roasted to death in a cauldron.
歌舞伎『金門五山桐』（楼門五三桐）の「山門」の場で「絶景かな、絶景かな、春の眺めは値千金とは小せえ、ちいせえ」と煙管片手に見得を切り、楼門の場の科白で釜煎りにされながら詠む「石川や　浜の真砂は　尽きるとも　世に盗人の　種は尽きまじ（辞世の句とされている）」が有名である。