However, due to a lack of financial resources, Kansai-boeki-shokai (a company run by Tomoatsu GODAI, who was from Satsuma just as KURODA) agreed to buy the properties.
しかし資本がないため関西貿易商会（黒田と同郷で薩摩出身の五代友厚らの経営）が払下げを引受けることになった。