Thanks to pleas from Tadatsune SHIMAZU and Hideie's relative Toshinaga MAEDA, however, the punishment was reduced by one degree and he escaped the death penalty, and he was confined in Mt. Kuno in Suruga Province instead.
しかし島津忠恒、並びに縁戚の前田利長の懇願により死一等を減じられて死罪は免れ、駿河国久能山へ幽閉される。