He is described as left-handed in some of the fiction written by novelists, etc., in later years, but in the pictures produced by Nobori NAKAJIMA he was shown holding a sword in the same position as a right-handed person.
後世、小説家などの創作のなかで左利きとされているものもあるが、中島登の残した絵図の描写では、右利きの者と同じ位置で刀を構えている。