The postmortem certificate of Kirino in "The Side History of the Seinan War" (Seinaneki Sokumenki) compiled by the-60-Years-Since-Seinan-War Society (1939) recorded as 'clothing: striped pongee (tsumugi jima) outerwear and silk crepe undershirts (chirimen juban); wounds: a bullet wound on muscle and bone of the inside of the left thigh, a sword wound of the right tibia, an old cut of the middle finder on the left hand, a piercing bullet wound from the lower bowel to the waist, a piercing bullet from the forehead to the temple, a sword wound from the left forehead to the crown, an wound on the tip of the middle finger of the left hand and scrotum hypertrophy, which suggested that Kirino had been suffering from filarial infection as well as Saigo.
なお、西南戦争60年会編『西南役側面史』（1939）に記載する桐野の屍体検査書に「衣服　績縞上着縮緬襦袢。創所　左大腿内面筋骨銃創、右脛骨刀創、左中指旧切痕、下腹部より腰部貫通銃創、前頭より顳顬部貫通銃創、左前頭より傾頂部に刀創、左中指端傷、陰嚢肥腫」とあるので、桐野は西郷と同じくフィラリアを病んでいたと考えられる。