A Court Council session was also held by Regent Nijo that night until morning, where it was decided that Mori and his son be reinstated and allowed to enter Kyoto, those Tosho family members (hereditary lineage of Court nobles occupying relatively high ranks) who were punished by the Emperor, including Tomomi IWAKURA, be pardoned and released from home arrest and return to secular life, and that five nobles in Kyushu be pardoned.
また、二条摂政によって翌日朝にかけて行われた朝議では、毛利父子の官位復帰と入京の許可、岩倉具視ら勅勘の堂上家公卿の蟄居赦免と還俗、九州にある五卿の赦免などが決められた。