Then they heard that Sanzaemon ICHIKAWA (the conservative) founded shoseito with the anti-Fujita parties of the Kodokan school in the Mito domain and that they began to exclude the extremists, so they headed back to the Mt. Tsukuba.
しかし、水戸藩内で保守派の市川三左衛門が弘道館の反藤田派を巻き込んで諸生党を結成し、藩内での激派排撃を始めたことを知り、筑波山へと引き返す。