The Choshu clan forced Hanzo YAMAGATA to change his name to Bingonosuke SHISHIDO and become an adopted child of the SHISHIDO family (who provided the chief retainer of the domain) and made him meet Naoyuki NAGAI, the interrogator from the bakufu, in Kokutai-ji Temple in Hiroshima (Hiroshima City).
同藩は山県半蔵を家老宍戸氏の養子として宍戸備後助と改名させ、広島の国泰寺(広島市)で幕府問罪使永井尚志に応接させた。