The chapter of 'Yuminagashi' (The Dropped Bow) describes that he was not physically gifted, with an anecdote that when he dropped his bow into the sea, he himself called it 'a weak bow,' when picking it up.
また「弓流」の段で、海に落とした自分の弓を拾った逸話の際に「弱い弓」と自ら述べるなど、肉体的には非力である描写がされている。