Shigekuni UGO (Ugo Genba no kami) was a shodaibu (fourth and fifth rank official) to the former chancellor Hisatada KUJO, and he suppressed the patriots with Sakon SHIMADA during Ansei no Taigoku, and because he was also involved in the set up of Kazunomiya koka (the marriage of Imperial princess Kazunomiya to an ordinary person), he was hated by the patriots of Joi (principle of excluding foreigners) group.
宇郷重国（うごうげんばのかみ）は先の関白九条尚忠の諸太夫であり、安政の大獄の際、島田左近と共に志士弾圧を行い、また和宮降嫁推進にも関わったために攘夷派志士からの遺恨を買っていた。