His personal principle was to get into the character even back stage, and when he played the role of a blind woman, Sodehagi in the drama "Oshu Adachiga-hara" (story of the blind woman in the Adachiga-hara Plain), he fell from a hanamichi (passage through audience to the stage) and dragged himself back onto the stage by touch and this impressed the audiences very much.
日頃楽屋にいる時からその役になりきることを信条としており、『奥州安達原』の盲目の袖萩を勤めた際には、熱演のあまり花道から転げ落ちたが、花道に這い上がる際にもこれを手探りで行って観客を唸らせている。