However, Sadachika ISE, a steward of the Administrative Board of the shogunate government backed up Yoshitoshi, because his mistress was the sister of Yoshitoshi's mistress.
ところが、幕府政所執事伊勢貞親が、自己の妾と義敏の妾が姉妹であったため、義敏に肩入れしていた。