According to the custom at that time, in case there is no one who takes care of a dead body, dissection is carried out, but the case of Tosaku, his family took the body.
当時の慣習では死刑囚の遺骸は引き取り手がなければ腑分け（解剖）されることになっていたが、藤作は親族が引き取った。