When the emphasis of opinion of a domain people was placed on Sonno Joi (slogan advocating reverence for the Emperor and the expulsion of foreigners) in 1862, he was captured and imprisoned in Hikone, together with NAGANO and others, and was executed in the same year.
文久2年（1862年）藩論が尊皇攘夷に傾くと、長野らとともに彦根に捕えられて禁固、同年に処刑された。