There is another anecdote which relates that when Takamori SAIGO was in a predicament at the Ansei no Taigoku (suppression of extremists by the Shogunate), he told the story of Toshihisa to the priest Gessho, joined his hands in prayer in the direction of Shingaku-ji Temple and plunged himself into the water.
安政の大獄にて追い詰められた西郷隆盛が、小舟の上で同乗していた僧月照に歳久の故事を語り、心岳寺の方角へと手を合わせ水中に身を投じたエピソードも存在する。