The lenient treatment policy advocates, Takayoshi KIDO, Yodo YAMAUCHI, and Shungaku MATSUDAIRA, were surprised to hear to the modified policy of Saigo, conversion from hardliner, and advocating sparing the life of Yoshinobu.
強硬論者だった西郷が慶喜助命に転じたことは、木戸孝允・山内容堂・松平春嶽ら寛典論派にも驚きをもって迎えられた。