Tracked by four Shinsengumi members including Kijiro MATSUMOTO and Yoshisuke KONDO, who prepared his description, he was detained by officials at an inn in Izumo and transferred to the quarters, and he was obliged to commit ritual suicide by disembowelment in front of a lot of his colleagues.
人相書を用意した松本喜次郎や近藤芳助など４人の隊士に追われ出雲の宿で役人に捕まり屯所へ戻され、大勢の隊士の前で切腹した。