There is a comic tanka left to describe that the Hosokawa family and the other family received praise from commoners in Edo; 'although a narrow stream of water flowing into the Hosokawa and the Mizuno is clean, it becomes muddy when it flows down by the Mori and the Matsudaira.'
細川家などは江戸の庶民から称賛を受けたようで「細川の　水の（水野）流れは清けれど　ただ大海（毛利甲斐守）の沖（松平隠岐守）ぞ濁れる」との狂歌が残っている。