When SAIGO was given a court rank for his achievements in the Restoration of Imperial Rule, Tomozane, having forgot SAIGO's imina (real personal name, but tabooed out of respect while he was alive), erroneously registered his imina as "Takamori" which was SAIGO's father Kichibei's imina.
王政復古の功によって西郷に位階を授けられる際、西郷の諱を忘れてしまい、誤って西郷の父吉兵衛の諱である「隆盛」で届け出てしまう。