Tetsunosuke stayed during some two years at the HIKOGORA SATO, and then he returned back to his parents home and held a reunion with his older brother, however, he died of illness in 1873.
鉄之助は約2年ほど佐藤彦五郎家に滞在し、後に実家に帰って兄と再会したが、1873年に大垣で病死した。