Therefore, he began to receive outside opinions on Japan's diplomatic policy from the daimyo (feudal lords), hatamoto (direct retainers of the Shogunate), and even the common people, who had never before participated in the Shogunate government.
そこで彼は、広く各大名から旗本、さらには庶民に至るまで、幕政に加わらない人々にも、外交についての意見を聞こうとしたが、これは開幕以来初めてであった。