On this occasion, although Shihei had known his name, when he looked at Kunpei's way too shabby clothing, he misread that Kunpei came to beg money, and laughed and said, 'what is your terrible guise, a down-and-out Confucian?'
その際、子平は君平の名を知っていたが君平の余りに粗末な身なりを見、銭でも乞いに来たと思い「落ちぶれ儒者、その無様さは何だ」と言って笑った。