Before leaving Ako he sent Yuma, a chief priest of Enrin-ji Temple, to Edo and asked the Shogun Tsunayoshi TOKUGAWA and the daisojo (a Buddhist priest of the highest order) Takamitsu at Kanda-Goji-in Temple, who had influence over Tsunayoshi's birth mother Keishoin for mediation in the restoration of the Asano family; he then visited Ogaki-jo Castle in Mino province with Junai ONODERA to discuss the Asano family restoration with a cousin of Naganori ASANO, Ujisada TODA.
赤穂を立ち去る前には遠林寺住職祐海を江戸へ送って、将軍徳川綱吉やその生母桂昌院に影響力を持っていた神田護持院の隆光大僧正などに浅野家再興の取り成しを依頼し、7月には小野寺十内とともに浅野長矩の従兄弟にあたる戸田氏定と浅野家再興を議するために、美濃国大垣城を訪れている。