When, on an occasion in the Sengoku period, one of his retainers offered boiled rice with boiled barley on top of it, he said that, in such a period, he could not be a glutton himself while farmers continued suffering (foods became most scanty in summer).
ある時部下が米飯の上に麦をのせ出した所、戦国の時代において百姓にばかり苦労させて（夏は最も食料がなくなる時期）自分だけ飽食できるかと言った。