When Takamori SAIGO, the junior staff officer of the government general (the anti-shogunate army), departed toward the east leading the Tokaido vanguard, he was selected for the chief of the first platoon in the castle town (joka ichiban shotai) and occupied Shizuoka and Odawara.
東征大総督府下参謀・西郷隆盛が東海道先鋒隊を率いて先発東上した際、城下一番小隊隊長に抜擢されて静岡・小田原を占領した。