His enthusiasm towards going to Kyoto can be seen from a poem, 'The time has come to awake the cloud of dragon hidden in a little stream, to be shown to the heavens' that he read when he went to Kyoto. |
「せせらぎに潜める龍の雲を起し 天に知られむ時は来にけり」と上京に際して詠んだ歌から、上京にかける意気込みが知られる。 |