After he was pardoned in 1852, he had been active in Kyoto in the end of Edo period and he received a will from Hisamitsu SHIMIZU of the party of Kobu-Gattai (the union of the court and the shogunate) to contact secretly with Teijiro AKIZUKI, Aizu Domain Koyokata (the highest consultative body of Aizu Domain), and then he sought to drive away Choshu Domain from Kyoto.
1852年（嘉永5年）赦免され幕末の京都で活動し、公武合体派の島津久光の意を受けて会津藩公用方秋月悌次郎に密かに接触し、京から長州藩の追い落としを図った。