Sadanobu MATSUDAIRA confiscated Tanuma's private property after his death, but it is said that Tanuma had so little property that 'there wasn't so much as a dust mote'.
なお、田沼の没後松平定信によって私財のほとんどを没収されたが、そのときには「塵一つでない」といわれるほど財産がなかったとの逸話もある。