There is also an anecdote which says that he was suppressed and handed down when he had a fight with the owner of the inn in Mizuguchi Omi Province, and the local governor of the bakufu was surprised to find out that it was Shigekatsu.
近江国水口で宿の主と乱闘して取り押さえられ引き渡され、幕府の代官が茂勝だとわかり驚いたという逸話も残されている。