There is a comic tanka left to describe that the Hosokawa family and the other family received praise from commoners in Edo; 'although a narrow stream of water flowing into the Hosokawa and the Mizuno is clean, it becomes muddy when it flows down by the Mori and the Matsudaira.' 細川家などは江戸の庶民から称賛を受けたようで「細川の 水の(水野)流れは清けれど ただ大海(毛利甲斐守)の沖(松平隠岐守)ぞ濁れる」との狂歌が残っている。 |