There is a story that while he was living a roaming life with Yoshiaki after the Eiroku Incident, they were so desperately poor that they found it hard even to get lantern oil, and were forced to pilfer oil from Shinto shrines.
永禄の変の後、義昭に従って流寓していたころ、貧窮して灯篭の油にさえ事欠くほどで、仕方なく社殿から油を頂戴するほどであったという。