Afterwards, he went up to Kyoto and in December 1863, he was rejected the enlistment of the Shinsengumi (a special force that guarded Kyoto at the end of Tokugawa Shogunate), the predecessor of which was Mibu-Roshigumi, even though he asked for it anxiously.
その後上洛し、文久3年(1863年)11月、壬生浪士組から名を改めた新選組に入隊を懇願するも断られている。