Later, in 1732, Yoshizane, a grandson of Yoshinaka's younger brother, asked the Edo bakufu for the permission to have its former name back, from the Tojo family to the Kira family, and was permitted to do so.
降って享保17年（1732年）、義央の弟の孫に当たる吉良義孚が東條家から吉良家への復姓を幕府に願い出て許されている。