Togo was so enthusiastic about raising the level of firing proficiency that he left the words at the dismissal ceremony of the Combined Fleet, saying, "One cannon hitting marks one hundred times out of one hundred makes it possible to take countermeasures against enemies' one hundred cannons hitting one time out of one hundred."
錬度を上げることに熱心で聯合艦隊解散之辞に「百発百中の一砲能（よ）く百発一中の敵砲百門に対抗し得る」という言葉を残している。