Furthermore, when he was about to die, he said, "The family strife will break out because of the mismanagement of the former lord, and I will be sorry if false suspicions fall on a bugyo (magistrate) or others." He wrote his Kao (written seal mark) on every possible papers before he died.
また死の際には、「御家騒動はいつも先代の不始末が原因だ、自分の死後、奉行らにあらぬ疑いをかけられては気の毒だ」と言ってありとあらゆる書類に対し花押を押してから没した。