However, this was the only revenge done so openly by a faction of retainers from feudal lord families who experienced sudden dismissal and deprivation of positions, privileges, and properties and elimination of their clans, and therefore, it was not that other roshi were given logical criticism for not participating in the revenge.
ただし、江戸時代に同様の事件で改易、取り潰しにあった大名家の家臣で徒党を組んで正面切った意趣返しをしたのは本件だけであり、その他の浪人に対し討ち入りをしなかったとして倫理的な批判が向けられたわけではない。