Royalists arrested in Kyoto were sent to Edo, questioned in prisons in Denma-cho, Edo and sentenced to severe punishments like Seppuku (suicide by disembowelment) and capital punishment.
京都で捕縛された志士たちは江戸に送致され、江戸伝馬町の獄などで詮議を受けた後、切腹・死罪など酷刑に処せられた。