As a Court noble and member of the Joi-ha (supporters of expulsion of the foreigners), Takauta talked to the Shogunate at the end of the Edo period but, as the result of a coup, he was temporarily deprived of his official rank.
幕末の隆謌は攘夷派公卿として江戸幕府に建言していたが、政変によって一時失脚し官位を剥奪された。