Tadamasa OGURI, a Kanjo Bugyo (commissioner of finance) also was assigned as a Rikugun Bugyo (commissioner of the bakufu army) ranking position, and Takeaki ENOMOTO, the chief ranking official of the bakufu navy, insisted upon a war advocacy policy.
勘定奉行兼陸軍奉行並の小栗忠順や、軍艦頭並の榎本武揚らは主戦論を主張。