On this occasion, the roju (senior councilor of the Tokugawa shogunate) asked Yanagiwara whether or not the ceremony for conveying the imperial reply should be carried out under such circumstances and Yanagiwara replied 'As it does not constitute a violation of circumstance, it does not affect the ceremony' and instructed that the ceremony be continued.
このとき幕府老中は穢れの中で勅答の儀を続行すべきか否か柳原に伺いを立てたが、柳原は「穢れ事に及ぶ事でもなく、苦しからず」として儀式続行を指示した。