Due to the facts that Toshimichi OKUBO was subsequently assassinated (during the Kioizaka Incident) and Takayoshi KIDO died of illness in the midst of the Seinan War a year earlier, Hirobumi ITO and Shigenobu OKUMA became the central figures in running the Meiji Government.
その後、、大久保利通は暗殺され（紀尾井坂の変）、前年の西南戦争のさなかに木戸孝允も病没した為、明治新政府は、伊藤博文、大隈重信を中心に運営されることとなる。