And during the Bunkyu Reform, Yoshinaga MATSUDAIRA (the Echizen Matsudaira family) and Yoshinobu TOKUGAWA (the Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family) participated in the shogunate government by an Imperial order released under the leadership of Hisamitsu SHIMAZU and the court nobles in the Imperial Court who supported the idea of uniting the court and the shogunate, as did Katamori MATSUDAIRA (the Aizu-Matsudaira family) by an order from Shogun (taimei).
また文久の改革では島津久光および朝廷の公武合体派公卿らの主導で出された勅命を受け松平慶永（越前松平家）、徳川慶喜（一橋徳川家）が、将軍の命令（台命・たいめい）を受け松平容保（会津松平家）が幕政に参加している。