Uhei INOUE, the daikan (the bakufu-representing officer at a clan) of the Hagi clan, reported the Hagi clan about the details of the incident, and sent an inquiry letter to the Tokuyama clan.
萩藩の代官･井上宇兵衛は事件の顛末を萩藩に報告し、徳山藩に詰問状を発した。