His checkered life (he was born as an illegitimate child in an Imperial Prince's family, he spent his childhood as a priest in Edo far away from Kyoto, he became the leader of 'an enemy of the emperor' and moved from place to place in Oshu for a while, then he became a military man in the army and he was considered a hero of suppression of Taiwan, finally he died an unfortunate death in a foreign country) was compared to Yamato Takeru.
親王家の庶子として生まれ、幼くして都を遠く離れた江戸の地で僧侶として過ごし、一時は「朝敵」の盟主となって奥州の地を転々とし、後には陸軍軍人として台湾平定の英雄とされ、異国の地で不運の死をとげた数奇な人生はヤマトタケルにたとえられた。