일련의 서양인 습격 사건은 서양과의 싸움에 막부는 누구 편을 드는지 세상에 내보여 막부를 타도하려는 의도였다.
A series of attacks on Westerners was intended to overthrow the Shogunate by showing the world whose side the Shogunate was on in the fight against the West.