Kuniomi, highly renowned among supporters of the movement to restore the emperor and expel the barbarians, was treated well at the beginning, however, as soon as the radicals were rounded up in the Teradaya Incident, their treatment drastically changed and he was brusquely thrown into jail.
尊攘志士の間で令名高い国臣はまずは丁重に扱われたが、寺田屋事件で急進派が一網打尽にされるや扱いが一変し、手荒く牢屋へ入れられてしまった。