On the other hand, conservative fudai daimyo (daimyo in hereditary vassal to the Tokugawa family) and O-oku (the inner halls of Edo Castle where the wife of the Shogun and her servants reside) backed up Yoshitomi TOKUGAWA (later Iemochi TOKUGAWA), a male cousin of Iesada, of the Kii Domain.
これに対して保守的な譜代大名や大奥は、家定に血筋が近い従兄弟の紀伊藩徳川慶福（後の徳川家茂）を擁立しようとした。