Among others, Daizen no suke (title of the person in charge of meals in the court) Kogen-in, Taki Yoshun-in (Antaku TAKI), Choan TODA, Yuan TAKASHIMA and Sohaku ASADA, all who served the Tenshoin and Imperial Princess Kazunomiya Chikako as court physicians who normally stayed in the castle at all times, were urgently dispatched to Osaka from Edo Castle.
江戸城からは、天璋院や和宮親子内親王の侍医として留守をまもっていた大膳亮弘玄院、多紀養春院（多紀安琢）、遠田澄庵、高島祐庵、浅田宗伯らが大坂へ急派された。