However, in the coup of September 30 of the same year, he fell into disgrace and escaped to the Choshu Domain with Sanetomi SANJO and Motoosa MIBU; this escape is called Shichi-kyo Ochi (the exile of the seven nobles).
同年の8月18日の政変によって失脚し、三条実美や壬生基修とともに長州藩に落ち延びる（七卿落ち）。