(later ito justified himself by saying that he delivered a secret letter from keido matsumoto to tomomi iwakura; however , when one considers the relationship between tomomi iwakura and keido matsumoto , the above is an unlikely circumstance; senzo mori , a great scholar who shares his hometown with mitsuya ito declares , ' it is no more than an excuse made by an escapee mitsuya .' ) （後に伊藤は松本奎堂の密書を岩倉具視に届けたと弁明しているが、岩倉具視と松本奎堂の関係を考えればあり得ないことである。伊藤三弥と同郷の碩学森銑三は「脱走者三弥の言い訳に過ぎない」と断じている）。
