Moreover, the Satsuma Domain had allowed Takamori SAIGO order his retainers to cause a disturbance in Edo by committing robbery and violence in order to cause chaos in the former Shogunate and start a war.
さらに薩摩藩は旧幕府側を混乱させ戦端を開かせる誘いとして、西郷隆盛の命令で江戸で藩士に強盗や狼藉を行わせ騒擾を引き起こしていた。