Being reluctant to accept this situation, people in his former territory and his former retainers caused the Takefu disturbance in 1870, and he was included in Kazoku (peerage) in 1879, being awarded the status of baron in 1884.
が、旧領民および旧家臣らがこれを不服として1870年（明治3年）に武生騒動を起こし、明治12年に華族に列せられ、1884年（明治17年）に男爵となった。