His return route from Hokkaido to Tokyo became the subject of his Tokkan Kiko (Journal of a Desperate Journey) which begins with the following passage: 'Physically wounded, mentally depressed, I cannot ward off misfortune no matter how hard I may try.'
この北海道から東京までの道程が「身には疾あり胸には愁あり、悪因縁は逐(お)えども去らず」に始まる突貫紀行の題材である。