Although the Kiyomasa-line Kato clan was deprived of its fief, the reverence of Kiyomasa by the Higo people did not decline even at the time that the Higo Hosokawa family (the lord's family of the Kokura Domain, Buzen Province and the Kumamoto Domain in Higo Province) of the Hosokawa clan was transferred from Kokura Domain, Buzen Province.
清正没後にほどなく加藤氏清正系加藤氏は改易されるが、肥後人の清正崇拝は細川氏肥後細川家（豊前小倉藩、肥後熊本藩主家）が豊前国小倉藩から転封してくる際にも衰えなかった。