While he was having a feast with Morohira KANO, who was his master, on the top of Nakatsuyama-kofun Tumulus near his birthplace, he warded off a group of monks who were robbing the mound for magatama (comma-shaped beads).
師の加納諸平と共に、生家近くの仲ツ山古墳の墳頂上で、酒宴をしながら、勾玉等を盗掘していた僧侶の一団を追い払った。