After Morimasa was transferred, Nagamasa ASANO taunted him by saying that 'I don't understand why someone like you, who was called 'Oni Genba', didn't commit suicide upon defeat', and Morimasa replied, 'when MINAMOTO no Yoritomo was defeated by Kagechika OBA, he survived by hiding himself in a cave of a tree and achieved something great later', and people around him got impressed by that.
引き渡されたとき、浅野長政に「鬼玄蕃とも言われたあなたが、なぜ敗れて自害しなかったのか」と愚弄されたが、「源頼朝公は大庭景親に敗れたとき、木の洞に隠れて逃げ延び、後に大事を成したではないか」と言い返し、周囲をうならせたという。