In the last scene, Kazuemon takes off his disguise as Gengobe and avenged his master without shame with fellow ex-retainers, and it is said that especially in the scene the writer Nanboku described the then samurai society with a bitter irony.
そのような源五兵衛が元の数右衛門に戻って、晴れて討ち入りする結末に、南北の武士社会への皮肉が表現されているとされる。