The Shinsengumi once left Kyoto to withdraw to Edo (present Tokyo) and although it returned again to Kyoto as 'Koyo Chinbutai' (a military unit formed specially for the campaign in Kai Province) to fight against the Imperial army, it suffered a crushing loss again.
新選組は京を離れて江戸へ撤退し、帰還後は「甲陽鎮撫隊」として、甲斐国で官軍と戦うがまたも大敗。