Although Naosuke's confidants, Shuzen NAGANO and Rokunojo UTSUGI, had already been decapitated and killed by the Hikone clan, their families still incurred a reduction in land value.
彦根藩では、これに先立って直弼の腹心だった長野主膳や宇津木六之丞を斬首・打ち捨てに処したが、減封は免れられなかった。