When called to the Hikone domain to make drawings on a folding screen, offended by being treated as a painter for being paid a fee for is calligraphic works and paintings, Tosai tore the folding screen and left.
彦根藩に召されて屏風を描いたとき、潤筆料が支払われ絵師として扱われたことに憤慨して屏風を破って帰ってしまった。