His death poem is said to have been "I depart on a journey, leaving my brush in the East, to scenic places in the Western country", but some people think that someone else might have made it.
辞世の句は、東路（あづまぢ）に筆をのこして旅の空　西のみくにの名所を見む　であるというが、のちの人の作ではないかという見解もある。