After this battle, he was attacked by three assassins including Hayato SUZUKI, an Ittoryu swordmaster, on his way back from a bathhouse at Kanda-mikawa-cho Town, accompanied by Shirozaemon KONO, and lost the middle and ring finger of the left hand, although he killed one with his sword and held off the other assassins.
この戦いののち、河野四郎左衛門を伴っての湯屋からの帰りに神田三河町で一刀流の剣客鈴木隼人ら3人の刺客に襲われ、1人を斬り撃退したが、左手中指と薬指を失った。