As a result, the people who in fact conducted Tobaku were not Goshi who had been humbled by the Tokugawa family after the Battle of Sekigahara but were instead Joshi who had received overwhelmingly preferential treatment by the Tokugawa family.
結果、倒幕を行ったのは、関ヶ原の戦いによって徳川家におとしめられた郷士達ではなく、徳川家によって余りある恩を受けた上士達であった。