However, Kiyotake was not considered for selection because the Tatebayashi Domain had been experiencing an outbreak of uprisings due to high taxes, he had already been adopted once before, and also he was elderly with no male children (he had an adopted son-in-law).
しかし、館林藩領内は重税のため一揆が頻発していた上、本人もひとたび他家に養子に出た身であり、すでに高齢で男子がいなかった（婿養子はいた）という事情により、選考対象から外れていた。