Also according to 'Okado hikki', Okado protested Shoda, the governor of Shimousa Province, that Asano's seppuku taking place in the garden would have been extremely dishonorable to a Daimyo like Asano.
さらに「多門筆記」によれば長矩の切腹場所が一国一城の主にあるまじき庭先である事について多門は庄田下総守に抗議したという。