Even when a flood of Kuro-kawa River washed away the bridge, he took off his clothes and crossed the river, and then walked to school in Kanumashuku without putting them on, wearing only a loincloth with all other clothes and getas (Japanese wooden sandals) on his head, and so he was laughed and called a crazy; like this case he showed his inborn eccentric behavior, but his teacher, Sekkyo, was very fond of Kunpei's personality.
黒川の氾濫で橋が流されても素裸になって渡河し、そのまま着物と下駄を頭の上に乗せて褌ひとつで鹿沼宿の中を塾まで歩いて狂人と笑われるなど生来の奇行ぶりを発揮したが、師・石橋は君平の人柄をこよなく愛した。