As Bonsho (temple bell) of Kanzan-ji Temple in Suzhou, which was said to have been taken away by Wako (pirates, largely but not exclusively made up of Japanese, who raided the Korean and Chinese coasts between the 13th to 16th century), was not found despite a search within Japan, a new Bonsho was casted and he then asked Hirobumi for a selection of an inscription to be on it.
倭寇に奪われたという蘇州寒山寺の梵鐘を国内で捜索したが発見できず、新たな梵鐘を鋳造するときに博文にその銘文の撰定を依頼。