However, at one time, when one vassal, who thought it would be okay to praise a pine tree in a garden, complimented beautiful foliage of the tree, Tsunehisa tried to dig it out for the vassal, for which other vassals scrambled to stop.
ある時、ある家臣が庭の松の木なら大丈夫だろう思い、松の枝ぶりをほめたところ、経久はその松を掘り起こして渡そうとしたため、周囲の者が慌てて止めたという。