There was an affair that because he wore shiro kosode (a kind of white underwear) which only the people with Court rank equal to Shii (Fourth Rank) or higher than that were permitted to wear although he was a ronin (masterless samurai), he was investigated by Kyoto Shosidai (the Governor-General of Kyoto) Masanori INABA in the Tenna era, but he referred to Eihonin Gomenkyo (imperial license for eternal appointment) and brought the genuine object of it confidently to reply the investigation, and so he was able to escape the trouble.
浪人でありながら四位以上の者にしか許されない白小袖を着用していたため、天和年間に京都所司代稲葉正則の取調べを受けたことがあるが、家伝の永補任御免許について言及、実物も持参し堂々と返答して事なきを得たという出来事がある。