As he was a brusque man of few words and tended to give tedious and difficult to understand diagnoses, he was not popular with local people, who criticized him by asking, 'What did he study in Osaka?'
だが口数が少なく無愛想で、村人が診てもらうと身体のしくみ等を何やら小難しい言葉でくどくどと説明したので「大阪で何の勉強したのやら」とあまり評判のよい医者ではなかったという。