Once, when the Rev. Jonen of the Saidai-ji Temple, bent with age, and whose white eyebrows showed him to be indeed a venerable man of great merit, was going to the Palace, the Lord Chamberlain of the Saion-ji Temple expressed his feelings of admiration by saying, 'Ah, what a sublime picture is he!' Suketomo Kyo, on hearing it, said, 'That must be because of his great age.'
西大寺の静然上人、腰かがまり、眉白く、誠に徳たけたる有様にて、内裏へまゐられたりけるを、西園寺内大臣殿、「あなたふとの気色にや」とて、信仰の気色ありければ、資朝卿これを見て、「年のよりたるに候」と申されけり。