However, according to another story, when he was working as copyist for Hisamitsu SHIMAZU, he was found that he had been buying shochu (Japanese distilled grain liquor) by putting the public documents in pledge, and sent to Okinoerabu-jima Island (and this is the popular theory).
しかし、別の説では島津久光の写字生として勤めていたが、公の書物を質に入れて焼酎を飲んでいたことがばれて、沖永良部島に流されたとされる（これが流布されている通説）。