He once sailed the Namegawa River at night and dropped a ten-mon coin (mon is a monetary unit of old times), then he ordered his servant to buy taimatsu (a torch) for fifty-mon to search for the coin.
かつて夜に滑川を通って銭10文を落とし、従者に命じて銭50文で松明を買って探させたことがあった。