Kakuma bought a residence in Kyoto with the size of 100 Tsubo (unit of land measurement; 3.95 square yards; 3.31 square meters) from Tatsugoro SHINMON (a fire brigade in the later Edo period and the head of professional gamblers, who came to know Yoshinobu HITOTSUBASHI in Ueno and whose daughter became a concubine of Yoshinobu) at the price of 36 yen, and lived there (the monthly salary of Kakuma at that time is 45 yen).
覚馬は京都にて新門辰五郎（江戸後期の町火消、侠客の元締めで、上野にいて一橋慶喜と知り合いになり、娘芳はその妾）の100坪の居宅を36円で買取り居住していた（当時覚馬の月給は45円）。