TAKASUGI was replaced as the governor-general due to the responsibility for the Incident at Kyoho-ji Temple occurred in the same year in which the member of Kiheitai Army had clashed with a spearhead troop.
同年に奇兵隊士が撰鋒隊と衝突した教法寺事件の責めを負い、高杉は総督を更迭された。