Due to such circumstances, Hachiro lived in hiding in Kyoto, and he also campaigned in various provinces in the east and the west in order to obtain private agreements for Sonno joi and overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
八郎はこのような事情から京都に潜伏したり、東西諸国を遊説してまわり尊攘倒幕の内約をとりつけにまわった。