However, in 1881, he found out the fact that the government and the Army leaders had been leaving the fact that some local officials had roughly handled the corpses of officers and men who had died in battle or of illness in the prior Taiwan expedition, so he resigned in protest.
しかし1881年に先の台湾出兵で戦死・病死した将兵の遺体を一部の地方官が乱暴に取り扱った事実を政府・陸軍首脳部が放置していた事実を知って抗議の辞任をする。