Yoshimichi OWARI had already been dead by that time, so when the cabinet officials of the Shogunate had to select a successor from among Tsugutomo TOKUGAWA, Kishu Yoshimune and Tsunaeda TOKUGAWA who came from Tokugawa gosanke (three privileged branches of Tokugawa family), they backed up Kishu Yoshimune, but Yoshimune refused it firmly by saying that Tsunaeda was older than he was and Tsugutomo excelled in genealogy.
尾張吉通はこの時すでになく、幕閣らは徳川御三家の徳川継友・紀州吉宗・徳川綱条の中から後継者を選ぶことになり、紀州吉宗を推したが、吉宗は年齢においては綱条、血筋においては継友が優れていると固辞。