The Jodo Shinshu sect was thus driven into a difficult situation, and monks from Asakusa Hongan-ji Temple eventually made a direct appeal to the senior counselor Sadanobu MATSUDAIRA, who had just passed Mt. Hakone on his way back from Kyoto to Edo in 1788.
追い詰められた真宗側は、天明8年（1788年）には上洛の帰途箱根山を通過した老中松平定信に対して浅草本願寺の僧が直訴する騒ぎとなった。