In the beginning of October, he became the O-sobayaku aside snd the Daidai-koban (successive title of koban army), and was renamed Kichinosuke SAIGO according to the "Explication of Takamori SAIGO's chronicle" by Kichinosuke OSHIMA (it seems he kept this name from his time on Oki-no-erabujima island forward).
10月初旬、御側役・代々小番となり、大島吉之助（『詳説西郷隆盛年譜』によれば、この名は沖永良部島在島以来らしい）から西郷吉之助に改めた。