This petition won the sympathy of the cabinet officials of the Shogunate, and with a comment that the forfeit of the fief was too harsh for a punishment, restoration of the Tokuyama domain was decided.
この嘆願書は幕閣の同情を勝ち取り、改易は処置が重過ぎるという意見が出て、徳山藩再興が決定した。