Seeing this change, another prisoner is said to have showed Shinjo a tattoo written as 'You know the deepest mind of others when you come down in the world and shed tears to wet a sleeve.'
これを見ていた別の罪人が「落魄(おちぶ)れて袖に涙のかかるとき　人の心の奥ぞ知らるる」という刺青を真乗に見せたという。