After the defeat of the Western army, Ekei escaped but was captured by Nobumasa OKUDAIRA's military unit in Kyoto, and went to the guillotine as one of the leaders of the Western army at Rokujokawara (there is a view that the reason for his execution was that he brought the Mori clan into the Western army, though the Mori clan had not initially made clear its position as anti-Tokugawa).
西軍の敗北後、恵瓊は逃亡したが京都で奥平信昌隊に捕縛され、西軍首脳の1人として、六条河原にて斬首された（彼が処刑されたのは、もともと反徳川の旗幟を鮮明にしていなかった毛利氏を西軍に引き込んだことが原因と推測する見解もある）。