Itabashi, Tokyo
Sugimura Yoshie died of periostitis caused by caries and sepsis on January 5, 1915 (Taisho 4). He was seventy-six. His last words was "". Upon his will, he was buried at the Grave of Shinsengumi, Itabashi, Tokyo. Coincidentally, in this same year, Fujita Gorō, another former Shinsengumi captain who was formerly Saitō Hajime, died at the age of seventy-two from a stomach ulcer on September 28.