The following is recorded in 'Jimokushintsuuki' which describes the state fo the famine: "Walking along the road, I saw people who died of starvation left to rot, and in villages the number of empty house was increasing day by day.
飢饉の様子を記録した『耳目心痛記』（じもくしんつうき）によると、「道を往けば、餓死者が野ざらしになり、村では死に絶えた家が続き日増しに増えた。