However, while staying in Kyoto to arrange a visit to Kyoto by Iemochi TOKUGAWA in 1863, seii taishogun (literally, "the great general who was to subdue the barbarians"), Yoshinaga suffered from confrontation between the Imperial court and the bakufu, and returned to Echizen, his own domain, after his resignation from his post submitted on April 19, was turned down.
だが、翌文久3年（1863年）、征夷大将軍徳川家茂の上洛工作のために京都に滞在中、朝廷と幕府間の意見対立に苦悩した慶永は3月2日に辞表を提出するが受け入れられないまま、領国の越前に帰国してしまう。