Itose Han received the news and was naturally very excited, feeling as though he had finally made it through the tough times. He went on a celebratory binge but ended up dying suddenly from excessive drinking. His only posthumous work was sent to Edo, and thus ended his life full of misfortunes—some say he ran about in drunken excitement and eventually collapsed, freezing to death in the snow, but that doesn't really matter. He was dead anyway.