There is a rumor that his mother was a daughter of Tahe MORITA of the same family, and when she worked as a bath servant, Matsudaira Oki no kami, the lord, became intimate with her, but it seems to have been dramatized for storytelling.
母は同家中森田太兵衛の娘で、お風呂女として上がったときに藩主松平隠岐守の手が付いたという落胤説があるが、講談風の脚色とみられる。