When Shingen finished practicing a Zen book, until the volume 7 of 10 volumes of "Hekiganroku", which Shingen studied fastidiously, the instructor, Gishu Genpaku said to him as follows:
当時信玄が熱心に勉強していた『碧巌録』の10巻ある内の7巻までを信玄が参禅し終わった時、導師岐秀元伯に次のように言われた。