At that time, Shogun Iemochi TOKUGAWA had started going west with the governor conquering the lord of the Kishu Domain and sixteen other domains with sixty thousand soldiers, in disregard of the Imperial command, and after soldiers were stationed in Osaka, and intercalary May 22, arrived Kyoto.
この頃、将軍徳川家茂は、勅書を無視して、総督紀州藩主徳川茂承以下16藩の兵約6万を率いて西下を開始し、兵を大坂に駐屯させたのち、閏5月22日に京都に入った。