It is said that he was once abandoned in an alley, picked up by neighbors, and returned to his parents' home a week later according to the customs of the neighborhood, because he was born in the climacteric year for his father,
父・文二郎の本厄年に生まれたので、村の風習に随って、いったん路地に捨てられ、近所の人に拾ってもらい、1週間後に再び実家に戻されたという。