When he went hunting and rested at Unagi Onsen Hot Spring in Yamakawa, but on March 1, 1874, Shimpei ETO, who was defeated in the Saga-no-ran War, came to visit him, and the next day he saw Eto to Ibusuki (Eto had been arrested in Tosa).
猟に行き、山川の鰻温泉で休養していた明治7年（1874年）3月1日、佐賀の乱で敗れた江藤新平が来訪し、翌日、指宿まで見送った（江藤は土佐で捕まった）。