After the arrest, he was sent to Edo from Kyoto, and although he was tortured by receiving lashes all over his body during interrogation, he told nothing and died of illness in prison.
捕縛後は京都から江戸に送られたが、取調べでも笞打（ほうきじり）で全身を打たれる拷問においても何一つ口を割らず、獄中で病死した。