However, as a result of search by the Tokugawa family, Kunimatsu was brought to Katsushige ITAKURA, Kyoto-shoshidai (the shogunate's military governor stationed in Kyoto), and, on May 23, after paraded through the city of Kyoto using a vehicle, he was beheaded together with his wet nurse and Rokurozaemon TANAKA in Rokujokawara.
しかし、徳川家の捜索により国松は京都所司代板倉勝重のもとに連行され、5月23日、市中車引き回しの後、六条河原で乳母某と田中六郎左衛門と供に斬首。