During the time of upheavals or the last days of the Tokugwa Shogunate, he lost his successor at the age of fifty-one and due to the Meiji Restoration he suffered greatly at the hands of the Shogun family's collapse, which was a valued patron.
幕末動乱期の中、51歳で後継者を失い、明治維新によって大得意先の将軍家の消滅という悲劇に遭う。