It is said the Emperor had a strong personality and loved swordplay: on one occasion, when Shigemune ITAKURA, the shogunate's military governor who was stationed in Kyoto, remonstrated the Emperor, he said to Shigemune, 'I have never seen samurai commit seppuku (suicide by disembowelment), so why don't you show me right now?'
激しい性格の持ち主で剣術を好み、諫言した京都所司代板倉重宗に「武士の切腹は見たことがないから、腹を切って見せよ。