Against the change to the policy, conservative government officials, who believed the thoughts of "Eisei Sekija" (put value on justness and reject evil and wrong way) triggered a backlash, and there was also an opposition movement by Confucian scholars in 1882.
こうした開国への政策転換に対し「衛正斥邪」思想を持つ保守官僚から激しい反発が起こり、1882年には儒者たちによる反対運動も起きている。