In the morning of the day of the assassination, he told Morisuke YAMAYOSHI, governor of Fukushima Prefecture, about his future plan, in which "the rebellions of many years will have been suppressed and peace will be returned to Japan".
暗殺される日の朝、福島県令山吉盛典に対し、「ようやく戦乱も収まって平和になった。