Later he recollected those days in a work of his own and gave bitter counsel as 'what a fate I was born under' ("Senkyo Ibun (Interview with an Apprentice of Tengu)").
のちに自著の中で当時を回想しているが「己は何ちふ因縁の生れなるらむ」（『仙境異聞』）と苦言を述べている。