A battle erupted over the bridge of the Seta-gawa River (later Seta no Karahashi Bridge), and Prince Otomo (he was given a posthumous name as Emperor Kobun in 1870) committed a suicide, which made the Imperial Palace Omi Otsu extinct.
瀬田川の橋（後の瀬田の唐橋）をめぐって戦闘が発生、弘文天皇（明治3年（1870年）に弘文天皇の諡号を贈られる。）は自決し近江大津宮は廃絶。