Although Tenshoin personally held little empathy for Yoshinobu, due to her lack of a favorable impression of him, she was enthusiastic for the continuance of the Tokugawa family and she wrote a petition addressed to "the commanding officers of Sasshu (Satsuma Domain)."
また天璋院は慶喜個人に対してはあまり好感情を持っていなかったが、徳川家存続には熱心であり、「薩州隊長人々」に宛てて歎願書を記した。