There was an episode that when he was asked later, 'Where have you learned such manners?,' he replied, 'I watched Chushingura in a theater house in Atago, so I just imitated the scene of the surrender and evacuation of Ako Castle.'
後に「あのような作法をどこで学んだのか」と訪ねられたとき、「愛宕の小屋で忠臣蔵の芝居を見て、赤穂城明け渡しの部分をそっくり真似ただけだ」と答えたという逸話が残っている。