At the end of the Edo period, when the authority of the bakufu and the clans had diminished, many of the Tosa goshi committed themselves to a movement whose rallying cry was ' Revere the emperor and expel the barbarians`.
幕府や藩の権威が衰えた幕末には土佐郷士達の多くが尊皇攘夷運動に身を投じた。