Takamori's name was the same as his father's name, but Tomozane YOSHII, who was his best friend, called him Kichibei, which was his father's name, by mistake when he received his orders from the Shoten Bill of Restoration of Monarchy, and after that he called himself by his father's name.
隆盛の名は父と同名であるが、これは王政復古(日本)の章典で位階を授けられる際に親友の吉井友実が誤って父吉兵衛の名を届けたため、それ以後は父の名を名乗ったからである。