There is an episode where he assisted Kenji NOGUCHI, a member from Serizawa faction, in his Seppuku (suicide by disembowelment), and then directly went to Yagi's house to help them in rice-making on the day of his entry to the Shinsengumi in January, 1864.
入隊の年（1863年）の十二月、芹沢派だった隊士野口健司の切腹にさいして介錯を行い、その足で八木家の餅つきを手伝っていたというエピソードがある。