At the water burial held on the ship, Kondo is said to go out of the bed to be dressed up and read his message of condolences, although he was also shot and heavily wounded in the shoulder.
船上での水葬の際、近藤自身も肩の鉄砲傷がひどく寝込んでいたが、別れを告げるべく正装し代表として追悼の言葉を読んだという。