The cabinet officials of the Shogunate belonged to the Nanki group, which recommended Yoshitomi TOKUGAWA from the Kisyu-Tokugawa family (later Iemochi TOKUGAWA) for the shogun successor issue and then Yoshitomi became the 14th Shogun after the lord of the Hikone domain, Naosuke II became Tairo (chief minister).
幕閣では将軍後継問題で紀州徳川家の徳川慶福（後の徳川家茂）を推す南紀派で彦根藩主の井伊直弼が大老となり、14代将軍後継は慶福に決定する。