While SAIGO's honor had not been recovered after his death, Tomozane, together with Masaharu (or Shoji) IJICHI, Michihira IWASHITA, Taneomi SOEJIMA and others, secretly performed rites and festivals on an anniversary of his death and made efforts to realize the audience of SAIGO's bereaved children with Emperor Meiji.
西郷の名誉が回復されなかった当時、伊地知正治や岩下方平、副島種臣とともに命日に極秘で祭礼を行い、また、その遺児を明治天皇に拝謁させること等に尽力した。