Motohira MORI, the lord of the Kiyosue domain, who had worried about the situation that even a clue to a solution was not found in almost half a year after the incident occurred, stayed in Edo together with Yoshimoto in the Sankinkotai system (a system under which feudal lords in the Edo period were required to spend every other year in residence in Edo).
事件発生から半年ほど経過しても、なお解決の糸口さえ見つからないのを憂慮した清末藩主･毛利元平は吉元と共に江戸に参勤していた。