Yoshinobu ordered Yasuchika TOGAWA, Ometsuke, to come up to Kyoto with Johyobun (memorial to the Emperor) to denounce Saccho and also ordered the armies of fudai daimyo (a daimyo in hereditary vassal to the Tokugawa family), staying in Kyoto, to come up to Osaka.
慶喜は大目付戸川安愛に薩長の非をならす上表文を持たせて上京させるとともに、在京の譜代大名諸藩軍へ上坂を命じた。