When the Empress heard Kiyomaro's report, she got angry, and firstly she demoted Kiyomaro to Inaba no ingainoge, and afterwards, she obliged him to change his name to (WAKABE no Kitanamaro)and condemned him an exile to Osumi Province (present Kagoshima Prefecture).
清麻呂の報告を聞いた天皇は怒り、清麻呂を因幡員外介にいったん左遷の上、さらに別部穢麻呂（わけべのきたなまろ）と改名させて大隅国（現在の鹿児島県）に配流とした。