Furthermore, he made less than small achivements including that he predicted a war would occur between the bakufu (shogunate) and the imperial government sooner or later, and developed a flag design of the Imperial standard (made of gold brocade) in order to encourage the fighting spirit of the imperial army.
さらに玉松は、早晩幕府との交戦があることを予想し、官軍の士気を鼓舞するための錦の御旗のデザインを考案するなど、その功績小ならざるものがあった。