And Sadatake ISE wrote in '46 feudal retainers' Ronpyo (comment)' (Ise said he had the story from Naganori's brother Nagahiro ASANO [or Nagazumi ASANO, depending on the theory]) that Takumi-no-kami tended to go such extremes that he answered to say, "I can't offer bribes with flattery and do public work having negative side" when his vassal suggested he should give a bribe to Kira,
また旗本伊勢貞丈が書いた「四十六士論評」（伊勢は弟の浅野長広（一説に浅野長純）から聞き取った話としている）によると「内匠頭は性格が甚だ急な人であり、吉良に賄賂を贈るべしと家臣にすすめられたときには、内匠頭は『武士たる者、追従をもって賄賂を贈り、人の陰を持って公用を勤めることはできない』と述べたという。」