Some say that the destitute Oishi visited Washio KANO, then a member of the pro-Imperial troops and a former member of the faction under Kashitaro ITO who Oishi had killed, begging for a job which Kano rejected when Oishi was captured but there are no records to substantiate this theory.
一説には、大石は生きるに困り、油小路で自分が殺した伊東甲子太郎の一派であった加納鷲雄を訪ね、官軍になっていた加納に仕官を懇願したが容れられずに捕縛されたとも言われるが、そのような証言の記録は無い。